The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Electricity has authorized NOMAD Power Solutions to enter the construction and installation phase of a long-duration energy storage demonstration in Vermont, moving a project that has been years in development into the ground for the first time.
What the DOE authorized
NOMAD Power Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq: NMAD), through its wholly-owned subsidiary NOMAD Transportable Power Systems, Inc., announced on August 26, 2026 that the DOE Office of Electricity had authorized the company to advance into Phase 3 of the Vermont Long Duration Energy Storage Demonstration Project.
In multi-phase federal demonstration programs, Phase 3 marks the pivotal shift from design and validation into real-world deployment. Moving into Phase 3 marks the transition from earlier development and validation work into actual installation, integration, and construction. For NOMAD, which designs and manufactures transportable battery units rather than fixed-foundation systems, the authorization also represents a critical commercial proof point.
Scale, sites and financing
The approximately $19 million project is expected to deploy up to eight NOMAD transportable battery energy storage system units across five sites within Green Mountain Power’s service territory in Vermont. Green Mountain Power is the state’s largest electric utility.
The project is supported by a $9.5 million DOE award and an approximately 50 percent non-federal cost share, with future reimbursements subject to the terms and milestones of the cooperative agreement.
The original DOE selection for this demonstration dates to August 2, 2023, when the agency’s Office of Electricity announced $19 million in awards to demonstrate long-duration energy storage projects in remote communities and military housing, marking the first projects to be funded under the new energy storage demonstration programs enacted as part of the 2020 Energy Act.
Phase 3 will incorporate the company’s latest transportable platform and microgrid-enabled controls. NOMAD aims to demonstrate transportable energy storage as a flexible resource for utilities and other critical power users.
Why transportable storage matters
Most utility-scale battery installations are fixed infrastructure, built for a single site and interconnection point. NOMAD’s patented platform is designed to be moved among locations to support peak management, emergency response, maintenance, and renewable energy integration.
The project’s advancement follows Green Mountain Power’s operational use of an existing NOMAD system for peak management and to maintain service to commercial customers during planned utility maintenance. NOMAD believes these applications demonstrate the platform’s ability to support multiple utility requirements using a transportable energy storage asset.
That pitch is particularly relevant to smaller, rural utilities that cannot justify the capital expenditure of a permanent installation for intermittent or seasonal storage needs.
The Vermont demonstration sits within a broader national push to add dispatchable storage capacity to a rapidly changing grid. Industry analysts project significant growth in U.S. utility-scale storage capacity through 2030, driven by load growth, renewable penetration, and grid reliability needs.
As that pipeline grows, utilities and grid operators managing fluctuating demand have a parallel need for storage assets that can be repositioned quickly, the gap NOMAD’s platform aims to fill.
The scale of that demand is visible beyond Vermont as well. Electric truck depots across the US are approaching 15 megawatts of local grid demand, with utilities opening industrial-scale interconnection studies that were once reserved for heavy manufacturing. Separately, the EIA has forecast US utility-scale battery storage nearly hitting 65 GW by end of 2026, a target that makes proof-of-concept projects like Vermont’s LDES demonstration more strategically significant as developers look for flexible, lower-capital deployment models.
Next steps
NOMAD has been active on several other fronts in parallel, including announcing a third generation of its Voyager mobile BESS series, having two customer-owned units placed into operation by DSO Electric Cooperative in Kansas, and achieving UL 9540 certification for its 1 MW/2 MWh Traveler BESS.
Construction and interconnection at the five Vermont sites is expected to proceed under the milestones and reimbursement schedule set out in the cooperative agreement with the DOE.
NOMAD Power Solutions is an early-stage company. Statements regarding the Vermont project, the DOE award and cost share, and future deployment remain subject to significant execution risk and ongoing federal milestone reviews.
