ALLEGAN COUNTY, Mich. — Plans are moving forward to bring a battery energy storage system (BESS) to Allegan County.
The BESS, proposed by Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP), would be located off Riverview Drive in Plainwell.
BESS facilities store electricity, similar to how a phone battery stores power, delivering it when it’s needed the most.
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“We are in one of the communities where the electrical grid needs to be stabilized, and that’s one of the reasons why this whole area is being targeted,” Gun Plain Township Supervisor Mike Vandenberg said. “It helps stabilize the electrical grid, so when the power goes down we have power here.”…