NES filed at FERC for authorization to "store" electricity for third parties at a facility in Ohio -- maybe provides a commercial opportunity.  Let us know if you want to see the entire filing.

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Summary:

	NES requests that the Commission declare that transactions involving the delivery of electric energy to NES' Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES) generating facility (the NES Facility) for storage through the compression of air into a cavern for subsequent release through turbine generators to produce electric energy or ancillary services for sale or exchange at wholesale in interstate commerce are exclusively subject to the Commission's jurisdiction under Section 201 of the Federal Power Act, 16 U.S.C. ?? 824- 825r (the FPA).  

	NES states that it is developing its CAES generating facility at the site of an abandoned limestone mine in the City of Norton, Summit County, Ohio, near Akron.  NES represents that the NES Facility will eventually include 2,700 MW of capacity, to be constructed in individual increments of 300 MW.  According to NES, the NES Facility will be the first compressed air energy storage project to be developed in North America as a merchant facility, and only the third CAES facility in the world.  NES states that the NES Facility will employ an innovative technology that will allow NES to "store" electric energy produced in one period for delivery, resale and use during a later period, much as a pumped storage hydroelectric facility does.  

Full notice below.
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"Nancy Pickover" <npickover@bracepatt.com> on 05/04/2001 04:01:47 PM


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