Governor Kathy Hochul announced the awards at the 2022 Advanced Energy Conference in New York City, Image: Governor Kathy Hochul official Flickr.
US$16.6 million funding has been committed for five long-duration energy storage (LDES) projects in New York by the US state’s government.
Governor Kathy Hochul announced the awards yesterday at an energy tech conference in New York City. At the same time, Hochul revealed that a further US$17 million will be available through a competitive funding opportunity for projects advancing the development and demonstration of scalable LDES technologies.
The emphasis of the latest awards is heavily on storage using hydrogen as the medium, with three out of the five projects’ technologies based on the gas.
Included among the five are a six-hour duration zinc-based battery storage project, a 3D-printed pumped hydroelectric…