The 20MW KCE NY 1 project, commissioned in 2019, was New York’s first grid-scale BESS, part of just 115.5MW of total battery storage output cumulatively deployed in the state by the end of 2021. Image: Key Capture Energy.
Energy storage plays an important role in more than just the electricity sector in a plan for the “deep decarbonisation” of New York State approved this week.
The New York Climate Action Council, brought together by the state to help oversee implementation of the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act legislation.
The Act, introduced by former Governor Andrew Cuomo in 2019, requires 70% of New York’s electricity to come from renewable sources by 2030 and zero-emissions across the electricity system by 2040.
The council announced on 19 December that its 445-page Scoping Plan had been approved and adopted, after a 19-3 vote of its…