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Brooklyn Gets New York's Biggest Battery Park from Italy's Enel

posted by martyb on Wednesday December 11 2019, @01:15AM   Printer-friendly
from the power-to-the-people dept.

upstart writes in with a submission, via IRC, for chromas.

Brooklyn gets New York's biggest battery park from Italy's Enel:

Italy’s Enel has installed New York City’s biggest battery storage system, which it said on Monday will help power the Brooklyn area during periods of peak demand.

[...] NYC is looking to install 3,000 MW of energy storage by 2030 to help build a cleaner and more resilient grid and Enel said the 16.4 Megawatt hour (MWh) battery will help cut emissions by limiting the use of more carbon-intensive power.

Enel, Europe’s biggest utility and one of the world’s biggest renewable energy companies, said it had developed a 4.8-megawatt lithium ion battery system near a shopping center in East New York together with real estate owner Related Companies.

The battery is designed to support the local grid of New York energy company Con Edison when demand hits highs, it said in a joint statement with Related.

Not to be confused with Battery Park in Manhattan!

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 11 2019, @03:59AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 11 2019, @03:59AM (#930948)

    Funny, I thought large batteries were "battery packs", but now these are "battery parks" -- where is the dividing line?

    Whatever, they still need almost 200 more of these to reach the goal of 3,000 MW of energy storage.

    Thanks for adding the disambiguation line at the end of tfs, I was thinking that Battery Park was involved somehow.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 11 2019, @09:39AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 11 2019, @09:39AM (#930993)

    "Battery packs" will burn down your house when they short out. "Battery Parks" will burn down your entire neighborhood. Enough of a line?

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 11 2019, @10:00AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 11 2019, @10:00AM (#930998)

    It will probably replace several hundred acres of carbon eating trees for a net negative impact on carbon reduction.