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New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) announced plans this week to double the state’s energy storage deployment target from 3 GW to at least 6 GW by 2030 as part of a suite of clean energy announcements.
New York’s 3 GW target already led the country for the end of the decade. The new target, detailed in Hochul’s State of the State book released Wednesday, will be accompanied by “needed market reforms and cost-effective procurement mechanisms,” as well as incentives for private customers to install storage.
The ambitious new goal will be achievable with state support, said Bill Acker, executive director of the New York Battery and Energy Storage Technology (NY-BEST) consortium, “The work that has been done over the past year has led to an understanding of the need for a greater amount of storage to facilitate a clean energy grid.”
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