The company has now constructed more than 85MW of flexible resources with a total +/- range of more than 170MW, and 33MWh of energy storage either in operation or under construction across North America, ranking near the top of the industry.

BROOMFIELD, Colo., March 22, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Renewable Energy Systems (RES), a global leader in the development, engineering, and construction of wind, solar, transmission, and energy storage projects has completed construction on the McHenry Storage Project, in McHenry, Illinois. The project, owned by EDF Renewable Energy, reached commercial operation on December 20, 2015. McHenry is the sixth energy storage project completed by RES. The company has now constructed more than 85MW of flexible resources with a total +/- range of more than 170MW, and 33MWh of energy storage either in operation or under construction across North America, ranking near the top of the industry.

RES served as the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractor for McHenry, a project that includes eleven containers of lithium ion batteries manufactured by BYD. Together the containers form a system of 20 MW nameplate and 40 MW of flexible capacity. Construction of the system began in June 2015.

"RES is a proven market leader in delivering energy storage projects and solutions to economically solve grid reliability challenges for our customers," said Matthew Krivos, Director, Energy Storage for RES. "We are pleased to once again work with EDF and the Illinois community to successfully construct an energy storage project."

RES has now constructed battery storage systems in three grid operator jurisdictions and has contracted with utilities, independent power producers and financial investors. The company's skills and experience as a developer, constructor, owner and operator of battery storage projects, coupled with substantial commercial innovation and flexibility, have enabled RES to deliver value to its energy storage customers in a wide variety of ways.

About RES
Since 1997, RES has been providing development, engineering, construction, and operations services to the energy storage, solar, wind, transmission, and demand side management markets across the Americas. RES has a construction portfolio over 87MW and over 200 MW in development. RES currently operates 47.6 MW of energy storage projects using RESolve. The company has over 8,000 MW of utility-scale renewable energy and energy storage projects and has constructed more than 1,000 miles of transmission lines throughout the U.S., Canada, and Chile. RES' U.S. corporate office is located in Broomfield, CO with regional offices located in Austin, TX, Minneapolis, MN, Old Saybrook, CT, and San Francisco, CA. RES has developed and/or built over 10 GW of renewable energy capacity worldwide, has an asset management portfolio exceeding 1 GW. For more information, visit www.res-americas.com.