The Tennessee Valley Authority on March 7 said it is calling on the nation’s premier Battery Energy Storage System developers to submit proposals for a 100-megawatt BESS system at the utility’s Kingston Energy Complex under construction in Roane County, Tennessee.
Once completed, the state-of-the-art energy complex will deliver 750 megawatts of combined cycle natural gas, 800 megawatts of flex-fuel aeroderivative turbines, 100 megawatts of battery storage and up to four megawatts of solar, which is enough electricity to power about 900,000 homes.
TVA is accepting proposals from qualified integrators and providers to design, engineer, build, operate, and maintain the BESS that must be in commercial operation by 2029.
Interested developers should preregister at tva.com/KingstonBESSRFP.
TVA will issue the bid packet to registered developers in late March or early April and communicate the bid due date.
The BESS project is part of TVA’s strategy "to unleash American energy to power our region’s growth," it said.
Over the past five years, the region’s GDP has grown 2.9%, outpacing the national average of 2.4%. The region’s unemployment rate has dropped by 0.3% while the U.S. rate has grown by 0.4%. In addition, the region’s population has grown faster than the U.S. overall, especially in the working-age population and those under 20 years old.
Pending required approvals and completion of applicable legal reviews and processes, TVA's current planning assumption includes building about 5,500 megawatts of new firm, dispatchable generation by 2029.
In addition to Kingston, construction is underway at Shawnee, Kentucky, Cumberland, Tennessee, and Johnsonville, Tennessee. TVA has completed 1,400 megawatts of new gas units at Paradise in Kentucky and Colbert in Alabama. Construction will begin soon at New Caledonia in Mississippi, and other new generation projects are under consideration in Tennessee.
