Reliable Energy Storage

Our Project

Energy consumers in New England and Atlantic Canada have benefited from clean burning natural gas as a low-cost home heating and power generation fuel. The continued growth of clean burning natural gas along with the loss of offshore production in Maritimes Canada, uncertainty associated with international LNG availability and prices on extremely cold winter days and challenges related to siting additional natural gas pipelines into the region has created supply and capacity constraints on the existing natural gas system. To meet customer demand; additional reliable and local sources of supply are needed to meet peak day needs on the natural gas system.

To meet existing and growing demand while providing supply reliability, Reliable Energy Storage (“RES”) plans to build a new market area storage Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) peaking facility in Westbrook, ME (“LNG Facility”, “Westbrook LNG Project”, or “Project”). The LNG Facility is intended to satisfy demand for firm storage service for existing and projected new requirements for New England based local gas distribution companies (LDC) and other market participants. The Westbrook LNG Project is needed to fulfill the supply commitments to natural gas consumers during peak day usage on extremely cold winter days.

The LNG Facility is a local solution to provide reliable supply to local consumers while simultaneously increasing responsive peak day infrastructure capacity to advance the adoption of new renewable energy sources without the need for new pipelines.

About Us

The Westbrook LNG Project is being developed by RES, a Joint Venture between Enbridge, Inc. (Enbridge) and Cashman Preload Cryogenics (CPC).  Northern Utilities and Boston Gas are Anchor Customers supporting the development of this project.  RES was created to bring the development, operations, and supply expertise of each participating member.  

Members

  • Enbridge Energy’s (Enbridge) natural gas network moves about 19% of all gas consumed in the U.S. Our gas transmission and midstream pipelines cover about 23,500 miles in 30 U.S. states, five Canadian provinces and offshore in the Gulf of Mexico. They stretch from the far northeast corner of British Columbia to the southern tip of Texas, across to Florida and up into New England and the Atlantic provinces. An Enbridge affiliate, East Tennessee Pipeline, owns and operates an LNG facility located in Kingsport, TN. The (1.2) BCF LNG liquefaction, storage and vaporization Kingsport facility has operated continuously for (45) years. Previously, affiliates of Enbridge’s predecessor companies owned and operated the Providence, RI LNG facility for approximately 30 years before it was sold to a National Grid affiliate.

  • Cashman Preload Cryogenics (CPC) is an affiliate of Jay Cashman, Inc. Holdings, a privately held, multi-disciplinary, heavy-civil, marine and energy construction and development company who own and operate more than 100 MW of wind energy in Maine. CPC has been pioneering the research, development, design, and construction of prestressed, precast, sliding base concrete LNG tanks for over half a century.

 Benefits

SUPPLY RELIABILITY

Having LNG Energy Storage readily available when needed most provides reliability, diversity and security to the consumers, helps to keep pricing stable, and removes uncertainty associated with foreign natural gas supplies.

ADVANCING RENEWABLE ENERGY USAGE

LNG Energy Storage is complimentary to the growing intermittent wind and solar development without the need for new pipeline infrastructure

A PATHWAY TO DECARBONIZATION

LNG Energy Storage leverages existing infrastructure to help achieve climate goals while limiting increases to delivered costs.