HUNTSVILLE — Huntsville Utilities has taken delivery of an 83,000-pound battery that will serve as the first grid-scale battery project of its kind in North Alabama, part of a pilot effort aimed at managing peak electric demand during extreme weather.
“It’s about the size of the back end of a semi,” said Todd Long of Huntsville Utilities. “It actually wasn’t supposed to be delivered until the summer, but they called and said they had time to send it early, so we went ahead and took it.
“Right now it’s being stored at our Triana facility while we prepare the site, which was already planned for later this year.”…