Black Mesa

"Black Mesa" is a grid-scale battery energy storage plant organized around modular, independently controllable storage groups. The reference design ranges from 228 to 640 MWh and can operate either as one aggregated grid resource or as separate battery banks when system conditions require isolation.

Battery capacity is divided into groups of approximately 50 to 120 MWh. Under normal conditions, the groups can be coordinated and dispatched as one plant. During a major grid disruption, individual groups can be isolated and operated independently, preserving stored energy across separate portions of the system.

Co-located solar provides an on-site charging source and can contribute power alongside battery discharge. Optional standby generation provides an additional backup layer where extended outage requirements justify it. Dispatch and revenue modeling were also included across solar charging, grid charging, demand response, and energy-arbitrage scenarios, allowing plant configuration to be evaluated against both resilience requirements and normal operating economics.