Tenaska introduces Bess and Bobwhite at meeting

Tenaska, an energy company, gave a presentation hosted by Care NET in the Holston Electric Co-Operative (HEC) Auditorium on Monday, Nov. 9. The subject of the meeting was a new facility Tenaska is building in the Phipps Bend Industrial Park. The Bobwhite facility will be a battery energy storage system, known as BESS.Located in the southern end of the industrial park, the new construction will occupy about four acres of a six-acre plot. There will be about 75 jobs created during the two-year construction period. Bobwhite has been in the planning stages for about three years, and will begin construction in early 2028. Plans call for completion by the third quarter of 2029, with an investment by Tenaska of about $300 million.BESS provides a way to store electricity during times of low demand and provide it to the grid within seconds of high demand. At Phipps Bend, the battery collection will store about 225 MW of electricity.

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