The project is located at the eastern portion of Port of Alaska’s Tract J, immediately to the west of the Atlas Tower. The land is a plateau between hilly areas and the engineer will use judgement in establishing setbacks from sloping areas. POA desires to change this plateau into a regional energy facility by designing and building a BESS upon it. The primary use of the BESS will be to support routine Port Operations, specially by ‘peakshaving’ the cyclical energy use of large cranes planned for the Port of Alaska Modernization Project (PAMP). Other uses will be to support a planned ‘micro-grid’ facility, to provide voltage support through reactive power to the interconnected Railbelt electrical system (‘Railbelt’), and to reduce the amount of fuel needed to be consumed to provide spinning reserve for the Railbelt. The stated size of the initial phase of the project is 4.5 MW / 9.0 MWh but the site can support approximately 100MWh of capacity, and the POA would consider favorably project approaches that would yield a scalable ‘shovel-ready’ design to fully build-out the system.
