Battery Energy Storage System

Energy & Environment

GVEA Considers Upgrading or Replacing BESS, the Aging, Outage-preventing Backup Battery

Tim Ellis

Golden Valley Electric Association is considering upgrading or replacing its Battery Electric Storage System, or BESS. Golden Valley uses the big battery…
Energy & Environment

GVEA Fires Up Backup Generators After Earthquake Knocks Intertie Offline in Mat-Su

Tim Ellis

The massive earthquake that hammered Anchorage on Friday also damaged the 170-mile transmission line known as the Intertie, which along with the Northern…