Entries by Peter Gray

GlidePath Joins Leading Global Organizations to Launch New Consortium to Assess Climate Benefits of Energy Storage

A group of leading organizations, including Meta, REsurety, Broad Reach Power , GlidePath and others, has announced the formation of the Energy Storage Solutions Consortium, a consortium to assess and maximize the greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction potential of electricity storage technologies. The group’s goal is to create an open-source, third-party-verified methodology to quantify the GHG benefits of certain […]

GlidePath Adds 50MW to Texas Battery Storage Portfolio

Byrd Ranch Project Will Deploy Advanced Optimization Capabilities Enabled by Artificial Intelligence GlidePath Power Solutions LLC (“GlidePath”), today announced it has completed design, equipment procurement, financing and begun construction of the 50 MW Byrd Ranch Storage Project (”Byrd Ranch”) in Sweeny, TX. Byrd Ranch is expected to be completed this summer so that it can […]

The Battery Is Ready to Power the World

GlidePath CEO Chris McKissack spoke to the Wall Street Journal about the massive opportunity for battery storage to replace uneconomic peakers and thermal generators in a feature on the disruptive potential of lithium ion batteries. “Developers and utilities are looking at another evolutionary step in the industry: building batteries to harvest and dispatch inexpensive and […]

Honoring GlidePath Veterans

On this Veterans Day, I continue to be inspired by the selfless sacrifice consistently demonstrated by our friends, neighbors, and colleagues around the country. In the face of an unprecedented global pandemic, political tensions, and uncertainty about our collective future, our fellow Americans stand up time and again to serve this country and their local […]

GlidePath Partners with Renewance to Advance Battery Recycling for Energy Storage Systems

GlidePath announced that it has partnered with Renewance to advance battery recycling and repurposing efforts for the energy storage industry. Renewance is an industrial battery life cycle management company and a winner of the Department of Energy Battery Recycling Prize. Renewance provides battery decommissioning, collection, re-use, and recycling services to the rapidly growing energy storage […]

GlidePath Names New CEO and Chief Revenue Officer

GlidePath Power Solutions today announced that Chris McKissack has been appointed CEO and Byron Boone has joined the company as Chief Revenue Officer. McKissack has been with GlidePath since the company’s founding in 2014 and in his former capacity as COO, was instrumental in building up the current c. 500 MW operating portfolio of storage, […]

Storage & Smart Power 2020: A Developer’s Eye View on North America

GlidePath engineering manager Sean Baur spoke with Energy Storage News about progress on the company’s 1.6 GW battery storage pipeline and shared his outlook on what’s next in energy storage. Read GlidePath’s comments below and see the full feature at Energy Storage News. PV Tech Power: What are some of your most significant accomplishments in […]

GlidePath Advances 80 MW New York Storage Portfolio after NYSERDA Incentive Award

GlidePath will complete development and achieve construction readiness this year on one of the largest portfolios of standalone battery storage projects to date in New York State. GlidePath is advancing the projects after receiving an incentive award from the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA). GlidePath is a portfolio company of Quinbrook […]

GlidePath Begins Construction on 10 MW/10MWh Battery Storage Project in Texas

WEST COLUMBIA, Texas — GlidePath, America’s leading independent energy storage developer, has begun construction on the Prospect Storage facility. Located roughly 50 miles south of Houston, Prospect Storage is a utility-scale, distribution-connected standalone battery storage project. The 10 MW/10 MWh facility will serve the ERCOT market for energy and ancillary services. The Prospect Storage project […]