We are honored to work with customers, such as the Wasatch Group, to help innovate for the future and make the lives of all our customers better every day,” said Gary Hoogeveen, Rocky Mountain Power CEO. This partnership enables an innovative solution to provide low-cost utility services, not otherwise possible.
“Not only does Soleil Lofts all-electric community help improve air quality along the Wasatch Front in Utah, the project will create a platform for managing batteries for other customers we serve, as well.
The solar industry should find inspiration in this extraordinary project, as it provides a blueprint for the future of grid optimized battery storage,” said Blake Richetta, Chairman and CEO of sonnen Inc. “The combination of solar and long lasting, safe, intelligent energy storage managed by the local utility is an essential component to the clean energy grid of the future. Soleil Lofts is based on the fact that sonnen’s ecoLinx is the safest, longest lasting battery which can deliver utility grid services for decades of operation.” “Early in the design process it was clear that sonnen was the leader in battery solutions to meet the needs of this project and others like it. That belief led us to partner with Rocky Mountain Power, sonnenand Auric Energy for the development of an all-electric community utilizing solar and batteries,” said Dell Loy Hansen, CEO of the Wasatch Group. “As the developer of Soleil Lofts, we started with the firm belief we could build a community that was solving the Salt Lake Valley’s serious air quality issues today and in the future. The project features over 600 individual sonnen ecoLinx batteries, totaling 12.6 megawatt-hours of solar energy storage that is managed by Rocky Mountain Power, the local utility, to provide emergency back-up power, daily management of peak energy use and demand response for the overall management of the electric grid. The Soleil Lofts apartment community in Herriman, Utah represents a truly innovative all-electric residential community design that standardizes on-site energy storage in every unit. TUCKER, GA, (August 27, 2019) - The unique partnership between sonnen, the Wasatch Group and Rocky Mountain Power provides a first-of-a-kind network of solar powered battery storage systems, better known as a Virtual Power Plant (VPP), fully managed by Rocky Mountain Power, the local utility, for the greater good of the community and the electric system. The Soleil Lofts project will provide the largest installed and operational utility managed residential battery demand response solution in the United States. Martha Harris contributed to this article.Sonnen Inc | AugTHE WASATCH GROUP, SONNEN, AND ROCKY MOUNTAIN POWER LAUNCH FIRST OF A KIND ALL-ELECTRIC APARTMENT COMMUNITY, INCLUDING BATTERY STORAGE FOR UTILITY GRID MANAGEMENT The new rates are subject to change, as they still need approval from the state Public Service Commission. The average residential customer can expect to see their bill increase by 1.6%, about $1.40 Eskelsen said. “Sales are credited to customers and purchases are, of course, a cost to customers.”Īccording to Eskelsen, costs fluctuate up and down and have decreased in the past.
“Any money that we make by selling power to other utilities is credited against the wholesale power that we buy,” he said. Eskelsen said that sales are credited to the benefit of customers. Rocky Mountain Power also buys and sells power to and from other utilities every day. “They review our cost of providing service and make sure that our prices are fair and reasonable.” In Utah, that’s the Public Service Commission of Utah,” Eskelsen said. “Public utilities, like Rocky Mountain Power are regulated by the state in which we operate.
Rocky Mountain Power must get approval from the state of Utah before adjusting its prices. Rocky Mountain Power has a collection of small hydroelectric facilities along the Wasatch Front, on Bear River, and a sister facility in the Pacific Northwest.
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