How an innovative battery system in the Bronx will help charge up NYC’s grid
Sunday, May 21, 2023 - 14:31
in Physics & Chemistry
The four white units are the batteries, which can provide about three megawatts of power over four hours. Rob Verger On a small patch of land in the northeast Bronx in New York City sits a tidy but potent battery storage system. Located across the street from a beige middle school building, and not too far from a Planet Fitness and a Dollar Tree, the battery system is designed to send power into the grid at peak moments of demand on hot summer afternoons and evenings. New York state has a goal of getting a whopping six gigawatts of battery storage systems online in the next seven years, and this system, at about three megawatts, is a very small but hopefully helpful part of that. It’s intended to be able to send...