Consumers Energy Selects Doosan GridTech To Deliver Innovative Battery Energy Storage System

Doosan GridTech™, the leader in utility-integrated energy storage
solutions, will install an energy storage system controlled by its
award-winning MESA-compliant software to improve circuit
reliability.

SEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Consumers
Energy has selected Doosan
GridTech as its partner to deliver one of the energy provider’s
first battery energy storage systems. The Parkview storage system will
be deployed at the Colony Farm substation in Kalamazoo, Michigan with a
capacity of one megawatt which is enough energy to power 1,000 homes for
an hour.

“More than 40 percent of the energy we produce will come from renewable
sources and energy storage by 2040, so this battery storage project is
an important step today,” said Jean-Francois Brossoit, Consumers
Energy’s senior vice president for transformation, engineering and
operations support. “We look forward to innovating with Doosan GridTech
to help meet our new clean energy goal while still providing safe,
reliable and affordable energy to Michigan homes and businesses.”

The battery energy storage system (BESS) will be controlled by Doosan’s
Intelligent Controller™ (DG-IC™) ̶ one of the first software control
systems built on open standard interfaces. The DG-IC is
the “brains” within each system with intelligence to coordinate multiple
real and reactive operating modes and be scheduled remotely. Other
system components include Samsung’s lithium-ion batteries and Ingeteam’s
power conversion system. Doosan’s engineering partner, Commonwealth
Associates, will be the project’s engineer-of-record, providing
multidiscipline installation design.

The DG-IC also complies with the Modular
Energy Storage Architecture (MESA) specifications for software
communications between components of a BESS as well as between the BESS
and a utility’s control room. A founding member of MESA, Doosan has
worked with utilities such as Austin Energy, Duke Energy, Puget Sound
Energy, Sacramento Municipal Utility District, Seattle City Light, and
Snohomish Public Utility District to drive development of MESA standards
adoption in grid-scale applications.

“We are honored that Consumers Energy has chosen us to deliver one of
their first battery energy storage systems,” said Daejin Choi, CEO of
Doosan GridTech. “The Parkview system is one in a series of EPC turnkey
projects we delivered in the last three years. This solidifies our
position as the leader in utility-integrated storage systems. Again, the
combination of a competitively priced turnkey system with an open
standards-based software architecture was a winning proposition for the
utility. Turnkey delivery provides simplicity of purchase while an open
standards-based software architecture ensures flexibility across both
technology options and suppliers. This is important for both utilities
and other front-of-the-meter BESS owners.”

Consumers Energy, Michigan's largest energy provider, is the
principal subsidiary of CMS Energy, providing natural gas and/or
electricity to 6.7 million of the state's 10 million residents in all 68
Lower Peninsula counties. Consumers Energy is creating a sustainable
future by focusing on the environment, powering Michigan's economy and
investing in people.

Doosan GridTech™ is a global software and solutions provider that
helps electric utilities and other megawatt scale customers to evaluate,
procure, integrate and optimize energy storage and other distributed
energy resources. The Seattle-based company has managed nearly 65 MW of
multiple energy storage and renewable integration projects on open
standards software platforms across the country and in Southeast Asia.
Its parent company, Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction Co Ltd, is
headquartered in South Korea and is a multinational conglomerate with an
emphasis on industrial and infrastructure products and services. www.doosangridtech.com

Contacts

Doosan GridTech
Jared Silvia, PhD, 617-460-9828
Director,
Product Management
[email protected]
or
Consumers
Energy
Katie Carey, 517-788-2394
Media Relations Director
[email protected]