Con Edison Battery Enhances Reliability for Staten Island Customers
February 19 2020 - 12:00PM
Con Edison has installed a large-scale battery near the North Shore
of Staten Island to help keep service reliable when the need for
power is high.
The battery at 1515 Richmond Terrace can provide 1 megawatt –
which is a million watts – to 37,000 customers in the northern and
western areas of the island. That will take stress off the Con
Edison grid on hot summer days when electrical usage soars.
It is the first battery Con Edison and its partner GI Energy
have placed at a customer property in New York City under a
demonstration project. An agreement guarantees Con Edison the right
to discharge the battery as needed.
“Some of our large customers have their own batteries and use
the power to support their operations,” said Alison Kling, who is
managing the project for Con Edison. “But this new unique
arrangement lets us place batteries in areas where our grid needs
support. Battery technology is evolving quickly and we’re looking
for the ways we can best use it to benefit our customers.”
When Con Edison is not using the energy storage unit for grid
support, GI Energy plans to dispatch the battery into the wholesale
market.
The project underwent an extensive safety review by the Fire
Department of New York and the city Department of Buildings.
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 $56 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.
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