March 17. Alevo Group in Concord will install an 8 megawatt system at a small municipal system in Lewes, Del. It is the company’s first installation of an energy storage module called a GridBank since the plant was announce with much fanfare 14 months ago. There was no word on the value of the project. Alevo worked with the City of Lewes and the Lewes Board of Public Works on the project, which involve repurposing of a retired oil-fired generator building once operated by the BPW. Alevo says the Delaware job is the first in a series of major commercial deployments the company has scheduled for 2016.

The mayor of Lewes said the 8 megawatt battery will provide a “significant tool to manage our capacity charges, our peak demands and transmission charges.”