ConEd Partners With NRG Energy To Deploy "Storage on Demand"
March 01,2017
ConEdison said that it has filed with the PSC a project that will bring battery storage technology to New York City neighborhoods to help keep service reliable during the hot summer months.
By the summer of 2018, the company will deploy batteries capable of sending 1 megawatt of power for four hours into the grid to serve homes and businesses. ConEdison will determine where to deploy the batteries each summer based on the needs of its electrical networks, the company said
The project, called "Storage on Demand," is the second battery demonstration project ConEdison has filed in 2017. The company believes both projects will produce insights leading to more widespread adoption of large-scale battery storage to benefit electrical delivery systems and customers.
Con Edison has formed a partnership with NRG Energy, which owns almost 50,000 megawatts of generation capacity across the United States, to develop and build the units at NRG's generating station in Astoria, Queens. Storage on Demand will consist of two mobile battery trailers and one mobile electrical switchgear trailer.
When Con Edison and its customers do not need the batteries, the units will be stored at the generating station and the partners will sell peak-shaving, contingency support and other services into the New York Independent System Operator wholesale market.