Including as much as 30MWh, every system is 15MWh capability, and are two out of 4 techniques in Summit Ridge Power’s first portfolio of vitality storage tasks within the state – in addition to being the corporate’s first two storage tasks interval.
The remaining two tasks, resulting from come on-line within the coming months, will deliver the entire capability on-line to 58MWh. As revealed by Power-Storage.information when Summit Ridge obtained US$15 million venture financing for 2 of the tasks in June final 12 months, the techniques will play into income alternatives together with New York’s Worth of Distributed Power Assets (VDER) scheme.
Within the VDER’s tariff construction, increased charges are paid for vitality inputted to the grid when it wants it most, akin to instances of peak demand. The developer additionally acquired funding by means of the state’s incentive programme for so-called ‘retail’ storage amenities, that are stationary storage techniques beneath 5MW every.
VDER, additionally described because the Worth Stack by the scheme’s administrator, New York State Public Service Fee (PSC), is geared toward changing internet metering. Kilowatt-hours of vitality fed into the grid from photo voltaic, storage and different distributed vitality useful resource (DER) property are paid an hourly mixture charge primarily based on their capacity to scale back demand, present capability and relieve congestion on the grid, in addition to for reducing emissions.
Different builders focusing on this market embrace NineDot Power, which lately raised US$25 million for community-scale BESS tasks in New York.
Developer diversifying by geographies and know-how
Summit Ridge government VP of enterprise growth Jason Spreyer lately instructed sister web site PV Tech that the storage tasks are a milestone for an organization which has expanded its attain geographically, branching out from three states (Maine, Illinois and Maryland) the place it has to this point been targeted.
It additionally represents a technological diversification from the rooftop and floor mounted PV vegetation it has developed to this point, Spreyer mentioned, including that the corporate is “more and more our growth pipeline to incorporate solar-plus-storage, particularly in markets the place incentives are beginning to develop to incent the event of storage with photo voltaic”.
In June this 12 months, the developer introduced a three way partnership (JV) to work on 100MW of photo voltaic PV tasks in Virginia and 8MW of BESS in New York with the US subsidiary of Japanese utility Osaka Gasoline, persevering with a working relationship between the 2 corporations that has seen two earlier JV agreements.
The Arlington and Littlefield BESS tasks utilise battery storage {hardware} and software program from QCELLS, the vertically built-in photo voltaic PV and vitality administration options firm. They had been financed, developed and constructed in partnership between the 2 corporations.
As reported by Power-Storage.information final 12 months as QCELLS signed as much as work on the 2 tasks, plus yet one more in Summit Ridge’s New York portfolio, they had been additionally one thing of a milestone for QCELLS, which had solely entered the US standalone storage market just a few months beforehand with a 190MW/380MWh venture in Texas.
For New York the tasks mark one other small step in direction of reaching its focused 6GW of vitality storage by 2030 on the best way to a 100% ‘clear’ electrical energy system by 2040. Within the shorter time period, Summit Ridge highlighted that the BESS property will profit the state by serving to it scale back reliance on its fleet of polluting peaker vegetation, together with some that run on diesel.
Peaker vegetation solely kick into motion throughout peak demand occasions, therefore the title, however might be among the many dirtiest and most costly to keep up property in a technology fleet. Programmes like VDER/Worth Stack in New York, or the Clear Peak Customary in Massachusetts, search to handle this as a primary precedence of decarbonisation efforts for the grid.
Educational medical centre NYU Langone Well being will buy the entire invoice credit from the 2 commissioned BESS tasks.
Further reporting by Jonathan Tourino Jacobo.
“As we pursue alternatives to scale back greenhouse fuel emissions from our amenities, it’s equally as vital for us to help efforts to harden and decarbonise New York Metropolis’s vitality grid for the profit and resiliency of the communities we serve,” NYU Langone Well being senior VP of amenities operations Paul Schwabacher mentioned.