Con Edison President Matthew Ketschke reported that his firm will place the most important battery vitality storage system (BESS) in New York Metropolis in service simply in time to assist meet summer time electrical energy demand peaks. The set up is a 7.5-MW/30-MWh system situated at a substation within the Fox Hills space of Staten Island, New York (Determine 1). The corporate expects the brand new BESS to be in service by the tip of June.
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“We’re deploying batteries to assist keep the industry-leading dependable electrical service that our area wants, and our prospects deserve,” Ketschke stated throughout a panel dialogue on the 2023 NYC Photo voltaic + Storage Summit held June 20 at John Jay School in Manhattan. “The arrival of large-scale vitality storage expertise additionally vastly will increase our alternatives to combine clear, renewable energy into the combination and transition to a low-carbon future.”
New York state has formidable vitality storage objectives of 1,500 MW by 2025 and 6,000 MW by 2030 by means of quite a lot of efforts. Con Edison commissioned its first utility-owned storage undertaking in 2018—a 2-MW/12-MWh lithium-iron phosphate battery in Ozone Park, Queens. In an effort to extend the corporate’s storage capability, it issued a Bulk Vitality Storage Scheduling and Dispatch Rights request for proposal (RFP) in December final 12 months. The RFP was meant to satisfy the necessities of a New York State Public Service Fee (NYPSC) order for all New York utilities to acquire a minimum of 10 MW of vitality storage and for Con Edison, particularly, to acquire a minimum of 300 MW of vitality storage. Per the NYPSC directive, initiatives should be operational by Dec. 31, 2025, however the joint utilities have filed a petition to increase the deadline for undertaking operation to Dec. 31, 2028.
Con Edison has stated it’s working to advertise the environment friendly operation of 1,000 MW of vitality storage within the New York metropolitan area by 2030. The corporate reported there have been 493 customer-owned BESSs put in in New York Metropolis and Westchester, a county north of the town, as of March 2023. The entire capability of these methods was about 25 MW.
Con Edison’s new BESS within the Fox Hills space is predicted to take stress off of the corporate’s electrical supply system when the demand for energy is excessive in northeastern Staten Island, which happens within the late afternoon and night hours throughout the summer time. The system consists of 11 Tesla Megapacks. Every megapack is a container that homes 19 battery modules, every with its personal inverter. The system reportedly underwent “a rigorous security overview by the Fireplace Division of New York.”
The corporate plans to cost the battery system at night time when the demand for energy is decrease and electrical energy is inexpensive. Along with utilizing the system to assist reliability, Con Edison will promote providers from the system into the state’s wholesale vitality market.
Putting the system on utility property saved the corporate from having to acquire extra land and minimized neighborhood inconvenience, Con Edison stated. Moreover, the corporate is conducting a biodiversity undertaking to make full use of the property and to be per its dedication to the surroundings. Con Edison has a biodiversity strategic motion plan and has began rewilding initiatives at its Eastview Service Heart and Rye Service Heart. The corporate will seed an space of land that was torn up from the storage undertaking and can create native habitat with milkweed and different vegetation to draw monarch butterflies and pollinators, and supply stormwater seize.
—Aaron Larson is POWER’s govt editor (@AaronL_Power, @POWERmagazine).