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250-megawatt Massachusetts battery closes $850 million financing

Canary Media reports a 700-megawatt project is planned just outside Boston.

$850MFinancing closed for a 250-megawatt Massachusetts battery

At a glance

  1. A developer is preparing to build a 700-megawatt storage facility just outside Boston that is expected to be the largest battery project in New England by a wide margin, according to the report.
  2. The financing implies roughly $3.4 million per megawatt, a unit figure allocators can compare with other storage deals in the region.
  3. The report does not detail how the $850 million is structured, so the figure cannot yet be split into debt and equity tranches.

An energy company closed on $850 million in financing to build a 250-megawatt battery in Massachusetts, Canary Media reported on Oct. 26.

A developer is preparing to build a 700-megawatt storage facility just outside Boston that is expected to be the largest battery project in New England by a wide margin, according to the report.

The financing implies roughly $3.4 million per megawatt, a unit figure allocators can compare with other storage deals in the region.

The report does not detail how the $850 million is structured, so the figure cannot yet be split into debt and equity tranches.

Reported by the Energy Transition desk from Canary Media. Published . Corrections

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