Electric Vehicles & The Utility Grid — A Match Made In Heaven
Some people are scared that electric vehicles will crash the utility grid. In two recent reports, researchers debunk such nonsense.
Some people are scared that electric vehicles will crash the utility grid. In two recent reports, researchers debunk such nonsense.
Five Lion electric school buses are having their batteries hooked up to the Con Edison grid and trialling vehicle-to-grid (V2G) services.
Con Edison will begin supplying ConnectDER smart devices to its customers on Staten Island. After a 2 year trial, it may expand the offer to all 3.5 million customers in New York City and Westchester County.
The Marcus Garvey Apartment complex in Brooklyn is an innovative microgrid project that combines renewable energy with battery storage and fuel cell. This system — designed, integrated, and controlled by Demand Energy — generates revenue and savings through demand charge reduction, capacity relief, and other grid services.
Grocery stores in Brooklyn and Queens are being recruited for a massive energy storage and load shifting experiment in New York City.
By Doug Staker, Demand Energy* They say anything can happen in a New York minute. Could one of these minutes change the way we look at demand management, though? After all, from an energy standpoint, not all New York minutes are the same. Depending on the time of day, electricity … [continued]
The New York City utility Con Edison has hooked up with leading rooftop solar provider SunPower in a massive virtual solar power plant experiment.
As part of New York Governor Andrew M Cuomo’s Reforming the Energy Vision (REV) strategy, the company Electrovaya will be designing, constructing, and selling a 500 kilowatt (kW) lithium-ion battery energy storage system to be used by Con Edison to function as grid resiliency support, according to recent reports. The … [continued]
General Electric will be providing Con Edison with an 8 MWh energy storage system for a site in Central Valley, California, according to a recent press release sent to CleanTechnica. The system will use lithium-ion batteries with a GE Mark Vie control system and Brilliance inverters. “We have a history … [continued]
Con Edison — the large utility company that provides New York City with electricity — is partnering with one of the world’s top providers of integrated energy management products made specifically for energy companies, Landis+Gyr, on a new pilot project, according to recent reports. The pilot project will be testing … [continued]