Ontario procures new energy storage projects:

(view the original article in The Globe and Mail)

The agency that operates Ontario’s electricity system has announced procurements of power from seven new energy storage projects and increasing generation capacity at existing natural gas-fired plants.

In what it called the largest procurement of storage capacity in Canada, the Independent Electricity System Operator said it will purchase 739 megawatts of storage, predominantly from two proposed battery facilities in Hagersville and Napanee, Ont…