ASSET SALE: DESRI buys two BESS projects in Salt Lake County, UT from Accelergen Energy

ASSET SALE: DESRI buys two BESS projects in Salt Lake County, UT from Accelergen Energy

Accelergen Energy sold two four-battery energy storage projects in Salt Lake County, Utah to DESRI, NPM has learned.

The projects are forecasted at roughly 200 MW apiece and totaled 1.8 GWh.

NPM Interconnection queue data is tracking two projects in that range, both in the PacifiCorp transitional cluster and with planned service dates of December 15, 2027: one project with a point-of-interconnection (POI) location of the Magna substation and a second project with a POI location of the Cooper Hills substation.

The projects are within the Salt Lake City load pocket.

JLL Capital Markets advised Accelergen Energy on the sale.

Accelergen, founded by former Green Investment Group managing director Thomas Houle and former sPower executive Josh Skogen, obtained USD 20m in bridge funding with Overlay Capital in late 2024.

At the time of the announcement, the platform had over 2.6 GW of battery energy storage systems (BESS) and hybrid solar storage projects across 13 projects in six states within the Western Electricity Coordinating Council (WECC) and Southwest Power Pool (SPP) territories.

Utah

The sale comes at a time when Utah clean energy advocates are pushing for PacifiCorp to ramp up clean energy solicitation, even as it continues to aggressively address its other service territories in the Pacific Northwest and California.

At present, the Berkshire Hathaway Energy-owned platform has been occupied by the ongoing Oregon Situs RFP and Washington State situs RFP. Earlier this month, it also launched a RECs Reverse RFP Spring 2026 ostensibly targeting additional resources in California and Oregon.

PacifiCorp recently filed its Draft 2025 Integrated Resource Plan Update.

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