ESS Collaborates With Portland General Electric To Demonstrate Utility-Scale Platform

ESS Tech Inc GWH has agreed with Portland General Electric Co POR in Oregon to test and demonstrate the ESS Energy Center platform. Deal terms were not disclosed.
The 3 MWh Energy Center is expected to come online in mid-2022 and be used to demonstrate multiple use cases, including frequency response, contingency reserve, voltage and VAR support, demand response, and resource optimization.
The project will be located adjacent to ESS' factory headquarters in Wilsonville, Oregon.
The Energy Center is the ESS "battery-in-a-building" platform designed for utility-scale, front-of-meter applications that decouple power and storage capacity to enable up to GW-scale projects with variable storage durations ranging up to 12 hours.
Price Action: GWH shares are trading lower by 1.00% at $8.95 and POR higher by 0.29% at $52.67 during the market session on Thursday.