TVA issues call for a 100-megawatt Battery Energy Storage System
The system at the Kingston Energy Complex must be operational by 2029.
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is calling on the nation’s premier Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) developers to submit proposals for a 100-megawatt BESS at the utility’s Kingston Energy Complex under construction in Roane County. Once completed, the state-of-the-art energy complex will deliver 750 megawatts of combined cycle natural gas, 800 megawatts of flex-fuel aeroderivative turbines, 100 megawatts of battery storage, and up to four megawatts of solar, which is enough electricity to power about 900,000 homes.
TVA is accepting proposals from qualified integrators and providers to design, engineer, build, operate, and maintain the BESS that must be in commercial operation by 2029. Interested developers should preregister at tva.com/KingstonBESSRFP. TVA will issue the bid packet to registered developers in late March or early April and communicate the bid due date.
TVA provides affordable, reliable electricity to more than 10 million consumers across seven states, and is aligned with the Administration’s Energy Dominance Executive Order to use energy technologies and innovation to drive economic prosperity and national security.
The BESS project is part of TVA’s strategy to unleash American energy to power our region’s growth. Over the past five years, the region’s GDP has grown 2.9 percent, outpacing the national average of 2.4 percent. The region’s unemployment rate has dropped by 0.3 percent while the U.S. rate has grown by 0.4%. In addition, the region’s population has grown faster than the U.S. overall, especially in the working-age population and those under 20 years old.
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