Viridity Energy will provide the network and commercial operations necessary for the sale and delivery of Tres Amigas’s transmission services, associated electric energy transfers, and other ancillary products and services.
Phil Harris, president and CEO of Tres Amigas, said: “The commercial operation of the SuperStation requires experience in transmission system network operations and services across multiple regions as well as knowledge of wholesale power markets.
“Viridity Energy brings the development and operating expertise required to ensure that Tres Amigas meets the energy and reliability requirements of each region we will be serving.”
Viridity Energy provides network operating services to micro-grid systems in eastern and western regional power markets. The company supplies the system optimization and services that are required to integrate distributed energy resources, storage, and controllable load and generation into a firm and reliable resources on the power grid.
Tres Amigas said that as a merchant facility, the SuperStation will enable the transfer of thousands of megawatts of power among presently asynchronous regions of the national grid – the Eastern Interconnection, Western Interconnection and the Texas Interconnection.
In March 2010, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission authorized Tres Amigas to sell transmission services at negotiated rates.
