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New York City is about to get its largest battery storage project

Baua Electric

Photo: Elevate Renewables New York City’s largest battery storage facility will replace a natural gas peaker plant unit retiring in 2025. The Arthur Kill re-development project will install the latest energy storage technology on the site of a former power generation plant. Get started here. –

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EGEB: New York City announces a massive clean energy plan

Electrek

In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB): Two huge infrastructure plans will power New York City with wind, solar, and hydropower. UnderstandSolar is a free service that links you to top-rated solar installers in your region for personalized solar estimates. Click here to learn more and get your quotes. — *ad.

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These canceled New York offshore wind farms totaling 1.7 GW just officially made a comeback

Baua Electric

Rendering: South Brooklyn Marine Terminal, Empire Wind Equinor’s Empire Wind 1 and Eversource and Ørsted’s Sunrise Wind previously canceled their offshore wind contracts with New York, but now they’re back. Sunrise Wind is scheduled to come online in 2026, and Empire Wind in 2027.

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GE using Large Eddy Simulation on Sandia’s Red Mesa to lay groundwork for quieter wind turbine blades with better power yield

Green Car Congress

Transition of flow to turbulence on a wind-turbine airfoil; isosurfaces of vorticity from a Large Eddy Simulation (LES). In a 2011 survey of techniques to reduce wind turbine blade noise, Sandia researcher Matthew Barone noted that: There are two primary classes of noise sources on a wind turbine. Credit: GE Global Research.

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NYSERDA offering up to $21.6 million to support installation and operation of stationary fuel cell systems

Green Car Congress

The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority’s (NYSERDA) Customer-Sited Tier Fuel Cell Program will provide as much as $21.6 million through 2015 for incentives toward the cost of stationary fuel cell installation, plus payments over the first three years of operation based on power produced.

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Fossil Fuels Renewable Energy and EV Modern Life

Setec Powerr

Here in New York City, where we have a population density that supports a mass transit system, most of our fossil fuel use is to power our buildings. Decarbonization will take decades, and in the case of large-scale installations like wind farms and solar farms, we will see NIMBY-style (Not In My Back Yard) opposition to siting.

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EIA: major utilities continue to increase spending on US electric distribution systems

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Electric distribution spending is affected by the number of customers served, the amount of electricity sold, the number of miles of electric distribution wire installed (line miles), and the maximum amount of load on the lines at one time (peak load).