‘Plus Power plans to start work this spring on Maine’s largest battery storage project at the Gorham Industrial Park. Cross Town Energy Storage will be rated at 175 megawatts/350 megawatt hours and provide the region’s grid operators with instant power when needed…The $100 million-plus project will feature 156 tractor-trailer-like containers spread across five acres in the Gorham Industrial Park, stuffed with lithium iron phosphate batteries…Plus Power is using battery systems supplied by Sungrow, a Chinese global clean energy company. There will be 3,072 battery cells in each 30-foot long container…Maine currently has 63 megawatts of grid-connected energy storage at six locations.
