NEW YORK, April 12, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Con Edison is
bringing energy storage technology to City Island in the
Bronx to improve reliability.
The battery system on a customer property at 220 City Island
Avenue can provide 1 megawatt – or a million watts – to customers
along the business strip. That will take stress off the Con Edison
grid on hot summer days when electrical usage soars.
"Battery technology can help us accomplish several goals on
behalf of our customers," said Santee Hernandez, Con Edison's
project manager. "Power discharged from a battery when our
customers need it the most means less demand on our
electric-delivery equipment. And deploying batteries is another way
we are leading the transition to a clean energy future."
It is the second lithium-ion battery system Con Edison and its
partner GI Energy have placed at a customer property in
New York City under a
demonstration project. The first went into service early last year
on the North Shore of Staten
Island. An agreement guarantees Con Edison the right to
discharge the batteries to provide power to its customers as
needed.
Under the demonstration project, GI Energy and Con Edison are
able to choose customer locations where Con Edison's analysis shows
the electrical grid needs support. When Con Edison is not using the
energy storage unit for grid support, GI Energy plans to dispatch
power from the system into the wholesale market.
The project underwent an extensive safety review by the Fire
Department of New York and the city Department of Buildings.
Battery storage will take on greater importance as the state
increases the amount of renewable energy lighting homes and
businesses, running vehicles and providing heating and cooling.
That renewable energy will include 9,000 megawatts of offshore wind
power.
Batteries can let energy companies to store power generated by
clean renewables and have that energy on hand for times the wind
isn't blowing and the sun isn't shining.
Con Edison and a partner, 174 Power Global, recently announced a
mammoth 100-megawatt/400-megawatt hour battery at the site of a
former fossil fuel plant near the East River in Astoria, Queens.
The company also has a 2-megawatt storage system in Ozone Park, Queens.
Con Edison is a subsidiary of Consolidated Edison, Inc.
[NYSE: ED], one of the nation's largest investor-owned energy
companies, with approximately $12
billion in annual revenues and $63
billion in assets. The utility delivers electricity, natural
gas and steam to 3.5 million customers in New York City and Westchester County, N.Y.
GI Energy delivers reliable, resilient, clean and
cost-effective on-site energy infrastructure solutions across the
US via a wide range of technologies. Services include finance,
design and construction. By integrating solutions into clients'
operations, GIE is enabling the future of sustainable distributed
energy.
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