The Value Proposition for Energy Storage at the Sterling Municipal Light Department

February 23, 2017

Sean Hamilton, Raymond H. Byrne, Imre Gyuk, Dan Borneo, Todd Olinsky-Paul | Sandia National Laboratories

This report presents the economic case for the Sterling Municipal Light Department’s energy storage system. It was published by Sandia National Laboratories, with support from Clean Energy Group.

The goal of this report is to identify potential benefits and value streams from electrical energy storage. Benefits considered in this analysis include: energy arbitrage, frequency regulation, reduction in monthly network load, reduction in capacity payments to ISO New England, and grid resiliency.