Dairyland Power awarded DOE battery storage cooperative agreement for rural communities

LA CROSSE, Wis. — Dairyland Power Cooperative has received a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED) cooperative agreement award to strengthen grid resilience and advance the clean energy transition by bringing Long-Duration Energy Storage (LDES) opportunities to rural communities.

The over $28 million federal award, which is funded by OCED through the Rural Energy Viability for Integrated Vital Energy (REVIVE) project, will support the development of three battery storage facilities in the following locations in Dairyland’s rural service territory:

• Frentress Lake, Ill. (served by JCE Co-op)
• Waukon, Iowa (served by Allamakee-Clayton Electric Cooperative)
• Wyeville, Wis. (served by Oakdale Electric Cooperative)

Energy storage will be important to supporting reliability as a back-up technology resource for renewable energy...   ...more