Our experienced team specializes in innovative battery storage technologies that save costs and improve power system reliability for our partners.
Lightshift works with utilities, large electric consumers, municipalities, and rural electric cooperatives to bring reliable, affordable, and sustainable energy to the communities they serve.
FIRM DISPATCHABLE CAPACITY
Energy storage provides a clean and cost effective alternative to conventional generation and peak capacity resources. Storage is a fast-start, fast-ramp resource with bidirectional capabilities to help to accommodate new load growth, integrate renewables and minimize curtailment, achieve resource adequacy, and improve system reliability and restoration.
TRANSMISSION SUPPORT
Energy storage can open up power flow capability on constrained transmission infrastructure by reducing congestion during peak times and serving as an alternative to conventional transmission investments. Storage is also highly effective at providing ancillary transmission support services such as frequency regulation, primary frequency response, spinning reserves, reactive power, and load following.
DISTRIBUTION SUPPORT
Energy storage is a critical tool for integrating an increasingly dynamic distribution grid. Storage can help manage distributed generation, unlock new system hosting capacity, avoid investments in conventional distribution infrastructure, reduce line and substation congestion, provide active voltage support, and provide grid hardening, modernization, and resilience.
LARGE ELECTRIC CONSUMER SERVICES
Energy storage colocated with large industrial facilities, data centers, or other manufacturing processes can offer numerous direct benefits including improved power quality, demand charge management, backup power/microgrid capabilities, solar self consumption.
Storage can also offer a source of firm capacity where it needs to be self supplied, can be paired with intermittent resources to offer 24/7 clean energy, and can be operated to reduce emissions and the carbon intensity of electric consumption.
What we offer
To meet existing and future grid demands, Lightshift offers versatile, cost-efficient, and adaptable energy storage solutions, including:
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HIGHER QUALITY, LOWER COST ELECTRICITY
Unlike traditional fossil-fuel generation, which can take several minutes to respond, Lightshift's adaptable storage systems discharge electricity to customers instantaneously, providing more efficient power supply capabilities at lower costs.
MEETING LOAD GROWTH AT THE SOURCE
Rapidly increasing electricity demand and the growing appetite for renewables are straining legacy infrastructure and creating major supply, cost and reliability challenges. Our storage projects are purpose-built to address these challenges, helping utilities achieve major cost reductions while paving the way for reliable and sustainable load growth.
IMPROVING GRID RESILIENCE
Our energy storage solutions enhance community reliability by fortifying the grid overall. Lightshift’s systems can also be designed to switch into island mode during outages or severe weather events to provide ongoing power to at-risk customers, critical infrastructure, or emergency operations.
ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY
Lightshift’s energy storage has no water requirements and poses no threat of water contamination in communities. Our solutions also produce zero emissions and provide cleaner air than traditional, fossil-fuel alternatives.
Our systems also enhance sustainability by mitigating supply challenges that can accompany increases in intermittent wind and solar power by shifting electricity supply to hours when it is most needed.
DECREASE FOSSIL-FUEL GENERATION
Because Lightshift often charges its batteries during “off-peak” hours and discharges them during “peak” times, our solutions can substitute for costly new investments in transmission, distribution, and conventional fossil-fuel generators.
TRANSITION TO A MODERN GRID
Not only can energy storage manage the operational challenges of today, but our intelligent design and control technologies support the transition to a more distributed, lower carbon power system of tomorrow.
Transform your energy management
Investing in energy storage unlocks numerous system benefits: