Forget Godzilla, NYC Gets Monster-Sized “Virtual” Solar Power Plant
The New York City utility Con Edison has hooked up with leading rooftop solar provider SunPower in a massive virtual solar power plant experiment.
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Electrovaya Creating 800 kWh Lithium-Ion Battery Storage System For Con Edison
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]
GE Providing 8 MWh Of Utility-Scale Energy Storage For Cali Con Edison Project
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]
ConEdison Utilizing Landis+Gyr’s L510 Load Control Switches As Part Of PEV Charging Station Pilot Program
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]
In The Aftermath Of Earth Day
By Vic Shao Celebrating Earth Day often feels like New Year’s Eve. We all get excited, drink some environmental kool-aid and make pledges like cutting carbon that we subsequently forget until the next Earth Day. But the aftermath of this Earth Day feels a little different. Last month, the Intergovermental Panel on Climate … [continued]
Tiny Green Charge Networks “Peaker Plant” Saves Big Pile Of Cash
The startup Green Charge Networks is planning a big announcement for next week, so in advance of that we’re going to take a look back at what the company has been up to so far. Its GreenStation™ energy storage unit is a lithium-ion battery system designed to operate like an … [continued]
Eos Energy Storage Launches 1st Pilot Project With Con Edison
Eos Energy Storage this week launched its first pilot project with Con Edison. The pilot project will see Eos’s potentially disruptive energy storage technology used at Con Edison’s New York City facilities. Interestingly, this announcement came out at about the time (maybe the exact time) I was writing a long article … [continued]
Smart Grid Technology Helps New York City
[social_buttons] An old Cleantechnica writer (actually, our previous editor), arielschwartz/, wrote a great article this week on how a nascent smart grid helped to prevent brownouts and blackouts in New York during a record-breaking heat wave earlier this month. Although our nation’s electricity grid has a ways to go before … [continued]
