NEW YORK — Energy storage developers and utilities in New York are working with NYISO to establish dual participation of storage in retail and wholesale markets.
The goal is to boost storage growth “to get to the gigawatt level, where just five years ago we were talking about one megawatt,” Martha Symko-Davies said in New York on Thursday.
Symko-Davies, program manager for energy systems integration at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, headed a panel on storage integration at the Infocast New York Energy REVolution Summit held last week in Times Square.
The panel discussed the industry’s progress since FERC last November issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking aimed at knocking down market barriers to storage and distributed energy resources (RM16-23, AD16-20). (See FERC Rule Would Boost Energy Storage, DER.)
Tim Banach, vice president of development for microgrid developer GI Energy, said that in the past, “there was little to no coordination with the utility around where these projects would be sited and what impacts the projects might have on the utility grid, both beneficial or potentially doing some harm.”
Now GI Energy is working with U.K.-based software developer Smarter Grid Solutions on storage demonstration projects for Consolidated Edison.
Graham Ault, executive vice president of Smarter Grid, said his company has mainly developed technology to manage DER for utilities. “The same technology as developed for and used by utilities is highly relevant to the owners and operators of fleets of DER, and that is what we as a company are addressing,” Ault said. “The GI Energy-Con Edison project is an excellent example of that.”
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