Saddlebrook Solar + Storage
A power project
TC Energy has completed Phase One of the Saddlebrook Solar + Storage Project with the installation of 81 megawatts (MWAC) of solar generation using bifacial solar panels, generating enough electricity to power approximately 20,000 homes.
The Project’s focus is now on Phase Two, the installation of a utility-scale energy storage facility with the ability to store up to 6.5 MW, 40-megawatt-hour (MWh) in a battery system, anticipated to operate in conjunction with the Phase One solar-generating facility. Phase Two is expected to employ Lockheed Martin’s long-duration GridStar® Flow energy storage technology.
Both the solar-generating facility and the battery energy storage system will leverage inverter technology to convert the electricity produced by the solar panels and battery into alternating current. The electricity produced will feed into the Alberta Interconnected Electric System (AIES) through a new substation constructed as part of Phase One of the Project within the Project site, which is located entirely on TC Energy-owned land at the Saddlebrook Industrial Park, southeast of the intersection at Highway 2A and Township Road 200, in 31-19-28-W4M in Aldersyde, Alberta.
Facts & Figures
81 MW generation capacity, enough to power 20,000 homes
FIRST CANADIAN PROJECT TO USE LOCKHEED MARTIN'S GRIDSTAR® FLOW ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEM
STATE-OF-THE-ART BIFACIAL (DOUBLE SIDED) SOLAR PANELS
