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Published: 26 Apr 2021, 08:20
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To reduce strain on the grid as renewable power and demand both grow, two New York utility companies have awarded contracts for flexible demand management to commercial and industrial (C&I) energy management specialist CPower.
CPower announced last week that Con Edison and National Grid subsidiary Niagra Mohawk Power Corporation have selected the company among providers of Dynamic Load Management (DLM) to their networks: peak shaving to reduce businesses’ use of electricity at times when it is most in demand. Battery storage, charged with power from renewable energy or from the grid at off-peak times of lower demand, can be used to reduce businesses draw from the grid at peak times and already the ability to use this peak shaving to lower Demand Charges, levied on commercial users of electricity in the US, offers a way to lower electricity costs significantly.
Plan to Install Green Energy Storage on Williamsburg Roof Raises Tenants’ Ire
315 Berry Street (Image: Google Maps)
A proposal to install energy infrastructure on a Williamsburg roof to ease the load on north Brooklyn’s power grid faces angry opposition from tenants who say they’re being left in the dark.
The company MicroGrid Networks (MGN) is looking to install a series of energy-storage batteries and solar panels at 315 Berry Street in Williamsburg, as part of a larger effort by Con Edison to reduce the strain on its Water Street Substation, which serves the area.
Con Ed says demand is already pushing up against the substation’s existing capacity of 373 megawatts. Currently, the agency relies on disruptive wire upgrades and polluting “peaker plants” including one located on Williamsburg’s Kent Street to avoid brownouts and blackouts, particularly in the evenings when demand is higher.