Innovative Olympic Valley Microgrid Project Proposed Project includes Battery Storage System at Squaw Valley Designed to Provide Energy Reliability to Olympic Valley Residential and Commercial Customers [Olympic Valley, Calif.] Feb. 5, 2018 – A new energy storage system to serve Liberty Utilities’ Olympic Valley residential and commercial customers in the event of an electric outage is proposed for the North Tahoe region. The Olympic Valley Microgrid Project would leverage state-of-the-art battery storage technology to create a new way to store surplus energy and deliver that stored energy to the utility’s grid. Liberty Utilities has had initial discussions with Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows to explore a potential site on their property, as well as with Tesla, a manufacturer of the type of energy storage system needed to provide more electric reliability in Olympic Valley, California. After initial research for the optimal location, the project proposal includes installation of a battery […]
