CGEMC, Base Power to deploy 50 MW of home batteries — SkimNews
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- Central Georgia Electric Membership Corp. will deploy up to 50 MW of customer-sited energy storage in partnership with Base Power, beginning in 2027, to stabilize the grid across its 14-county service area.
- Base Power is launching its first utility partnership outside Texas with CGEMC, marking a strategic expansion into regulated markets and adding to its existing work with El Paso Electric on a resilience pilot.
- Base Power installs and maintains 39.2-kWh home batteries at little or no cost to homeowners, using them for peak shaving, energy arbitrage, and outage backup that can last up to 36 hours.
- CGEMC plans to use the battery network to reduce wholesale power costs and defer infrastructure investments, particularly as data center demand grows, including a planned 240-MW Equinix campus in its territory.
- Base Power operates across Texas and the Illinois zone of PJM Interconnection, managing over 750 MWh of capacity from more than 30,000 residential batteries under retail energy choice and utility partnership models.
- George Weaver, CGEMC president and CEO, stated the deployment adds flexible local capacity while giving members reliable backup power, aligning cost-saving and resilience goals.
Why it matters: Rural electric cooperatives like CGEMC face rising capacity demands from data centers but lack the rate-of-return incentives to build costly infrastructure. By tapping distributed batteries, they can defer upgrades and lower wholesale costs—saving members money while improving grid resilience without raising rates.
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