by Larry Chowning –
A battery electrical storage facility on a 12-acre site at Harmony Village is being proposed on land at the intersection of General Puller Highway (Route 33) and Grey’s Point Road (Route 3), across from the Dominion Power electric station and from Harmony Grove Baptist Church.
The proposal is from Open Road Renewables of Austin, Texas, and is called the Drake Power Facility Project. If approved, batteries will be stored in one-story warehouse type buildings on five acres of the 12 total acres.
The large batteries will store excess electricity from the Dominion Power electric substation and when the stored electricity is needed it will be reconnected to the substation and reenergize into the grid.
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam recently signed the Virginia Clean Economy Act encouraging advancement of this type of clean energy…
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