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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!
(Score: 1) by cyberthanasis on Wednesday December 11 2019, @07:49AM (3 children)
Again the same mistake. MW is power unit. MWh is the correct unit for energy.
Or are we to believe that the rate of energy that the battery provides is larger than most power producers of the world?
(Score: 2) by Muad'Dave on Wednesday December 11 2019, @12:57PM (2 children)
Maybe they'd stop getting it wrong if they used the real SI unit 'Joule' instead of MWh. Bonus - you get really large numbers that way.
If we take the article at its word, they have a max 4.8 MW of power available, and the battery itself has a capacity of 16.4 MWh. That's 3 hours, 25 minutes of runtime.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Wednesday December 11 2019, @11:27PM (1 child)
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(Score: 3, Informative) by Muad'Dave on Thursday December 12 2019, @11:58AM
That's by 2030, now now. I almost fell for that, too.