“This is just a first step in using our assets as a catalyst and test bed for clean energy technologies.”ġ74 Power Global was awarded the project through a competitive solicitation process, having responded to a Request for Proposals (RFP) launched by Con Edison in July 2019. “The adaptive reuse of this land for energy storage development will help realise continued growth of renewable energy and bring greater flexibility and resiliency to New York State's electric grid,” Quiniones said. NYPA president and CEO Gil Quiniones commented that his organisation was “pleased to have a role in this project”.
NYPA, a state public-benefit corporation, itself just released a strategic plan and roadmap for advancing the transition to clean energy which includes a pledge to support the development and demonstration of short- and long-duration energy storage technologies. The official NYPA Twitter account tweeted that the utility played a role “in identifying available land in NYC and running an open competitive process to provide leases to developers” during bidding run by Con Edison. The project is being built on land owned by state utility New York Power Authority (NYPA), on a site formerly occupied by a 885MW natural gas and oil power plant. The containerised battery system will be connected to a Con Edison transmission substation. Utility company Con Edison, which serves 10 million people in New York City and Westchester County areas of New York State, said yesterday that the agreement will see 174 Power Global build and own the new East River Energy Storage System in Astoria, Queens. The project will be one of the world’s larger battery storage projects to date and the US state’s largest so far by some distance – currently the only transmission-connected battery project in New York is the 20MW KCE NY 1 project completed by developer Key Capture Energy a while back, although many more multi-megawatt projects are thought to be on the way albeit outside of New York's densely populated urban areas.
An agreement has been signed for a 100MW / 400MWh battery storage project in Queens, New York, by utility company Con Edison and Hanwha Group-affiliated renewable energy developer 174 Power Global.
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