The World’s Tiniest Power Market Will Leverage Big Data to Sell Solar It will be the world’s smallest electricity market. In mid-December, National Grid Plc will flip the switch on an automated trading system that pays hospitals and research facilities at the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus to sell electricity from their onsite solar panels, batteries … Continue reading The World’s Tiniest Power Market Will Leverage Big Data to Sell Solar→
Jacobi Medical Center first in NYC to install energy storage system THE BRONX – Jacobi Medical Center is ensuring it’s ready in case of another natural disaster by installing a new energy storage system. The system, which consists of a battery that weighs 80,000 pounds, is the first of its kind in New York City. … Continue reading Jacobi Medical Center first in #NYC to install energy storage system→
Battery storage could help New York City’s ambitious energy, climate goals, report says New York City has ambitious energy goals, including a goal of installing 100 MWh of storage by 2020 and reducing emissions 80% by 2050. While the city has faced some difficulties in deploying batteries, in part due to fire codes and other … Continue reading Battery storage could help New York City’s ambitious energy, climate goals, report says→
Award-Winning Microgrid in Brooklyn “REVolutionizes” the Electricity Market Earlier this year, a first-of-its-kind microgrid was commissioned at the Marcus Garvey Apartment complex in Brooklyn’s Brownsville neighborhood in New York City. Like many microgrid projects, it combined renewable energy (in this case, solar PV) with battery storage, as well as a fuel cell. It’s connected to … Continue reading Award-Winning Microgrid in Brooklyn “REVolutionizes” the Electricity Market→
New York City needs Indian Point to avoid blackouts Gov. Andrew Cuomo is pushing for the biggest changes in New York’s electric grid since Thomas Edison launched the Electric Age on Manhattan’s Pearl Street in 1882. Not only has Cuomo decided that the state should be getting half of its electricity from renewable sources by … Continue reading #New_York_City needs #Indian_Point to avoid blackouts→
Grid cannot accommodate Horse Creek Wind Farm at current size The state’s electric grid cannot accommodate Avangrid Renewables’s Horse Creek Wind Farm at the current proposed scope of the project, prompting the developer to return to the drawing board and consider reducing its size. A study from the New York Independent System Operator’s study revealed … Continue reading Grid cannot accommodate #Horse_Creek Wind Farm at current size→
Facts don’t support siting of Lighthouse Wind The opposition to the Lighthouse Wind project isn’t about being pro-wind or anti-wind. It’s about the siting of this industrial wind project. Everyone should be looking for facts specific to this project. That’s not what is happening in Somerset and Yates, according to the story in the Aug. … Continue reading Facts don’t support siting of Lighthouse Wind→
NY Begins Exploring Pricing Carbon in its Electricity Market Imagine what would happen if the utilities buying the electricity to power our homes and businesses had to pay more for it depending on how much carbon pollution the power plants supplying the power pumped into the atmosphere? A report issued today for the state of … Continue reading NY Begins Exploring Pricing Carbon in its Electricity Market→
