Outage prone town turns to batteries
New England utility Eversource wants to deploy energy storage to back up an outage-prone New Hampshire town, while saving customers money.
New England utility Eversource wants to deploy energy storage to back up an outage-prone New Hampshire town, while saving customers money.
The roughly 1,700 residents* of Westmoreland rely on a single radial power line to deliver electricity through the forested, rural surroundings. Ice storms and heavy snowfall regularly knock that line down, making the area an outlier in the frequency and duration of outages.
"The traditional answer would be to build a redundant line to back up the one line if it goes out," said Charlotte Ancel, director of clean energy development at Eversource. "But we see this all the time in storms, where the redundant line goes out too."
