The City of Snoqualmie has received a response from Puget Sound Energy President and CEO Mary Kipp following a letter sent by Mayor James Mayhew and the City Council to Kipp, King County Executive Girmay Zahilay, and the King County Council conveying resident concerns about the proposed Cascadia Ridge Battery Energy Storage System facility
The proposed Cascadia Ridge Resiliency Project, put forward by Jupiter Power LLC, is an approximately 130 MW utility-scale battery energy storage system planned for roughly 45 acres of unincorporated King County land adjacent to the City of Snoqualmie, near Cascade View Elementary School and school bus routes along Snoqualmie Parkway.
[Letter provided by the City of Snoqualmie]
Comments
45 acres for 145 MW(the article did not disclose the MWh capacity, a major detail to determine how densely packed the batteries are) battery plant is much more reasonable than what is happening in sumner, as they approved a 800MWh/200MW BESS on east valley highway, near the white river, in a LAHAR Zone of all places, and on ONLY 8 arces. In my opinion, 800MWh of battery storage on 8 arces will be far too dense to prevent a cascading fire event from one enclosure to the next without serious design mitigation efforts. One battery enclosure fire could put the entire place up in smoke which would threaten nearby farm fields and/or potentially the river if the fire departments use water to try to extinguish a non-extinguishable fire… I’m pro BESS but the greenwater BESS project is a disaster waiting to happen.