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, Offtopic) by Ethanol-fueled on Wednesday December 11 2019, @02:51AM (5 children)
So, the Jews were somehow involved. I wonder if this project was funded by American taxpayers with money sent to Israel. Well, either way, when it comes to the Orthodox, the expenses are offloaded onto others who have no dog in the fight.
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by aristarchus on Wednesday December 11 2019, @06:41AM (2 children)
Alright, Ethanol_fuckled, we get it: your father was a Jew. But since jewishness is matrilineal, you are not, and so you became an anti-Semite. You're not the first. There is Miller, Horowitz, Badanhof, and many others.
So who was your father? Was his name Naughtius Maximus? Stationed in the Jerusalem Garrison? Or perhaps my friend from Rome, Biggus Dickus? Time to get over it, Ethanol, it was a joke name, you father probably was a member of the Judean People's Front, or the BDS groups that Trump just banned in his own anti-semitic idiom. Time to get the end of your dick cut off, Ethanol-foxed! Only way for the son of a Jewish father and Shiska mother to become a proper covenanted righteous duke, convert.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 13 2019, @05:36AM (1 child)
Is that like shishka-bob? Stomach talking?
The word is "shiksa", moron. And I'm not even Jewish.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 13 2019, @07:06AM
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Shiska [urbandictionary.com]
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday December 11 2019, @11:20AM (1 child)
How do you figure that? Jews aren't mentioned anywhere in TFA that I saw. East New York is a neighborhood far to the east and is mostly black and Latino, I believe. Most people pass through it only when they take the North Conduit Blvd route to JFK.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday December 11 2019, @07:55PM
Uhhh...because he's a racist anti-semite?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 11 2019, @03:59AM (2 children)
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
"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
It will probably replace several hundred acres of carbon eating trees for a net negative impact on carbon reduction.
(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)
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(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.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday December 11 2019, @11:22AM
I'm glad they're doing projects like this. I would think they'd place them in Queens first, because they've had a lot of brownouts in the summers [patch.com] over the last decade.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday December 11 2019, @11:33AM
One thing I'm wondering about is the elevation of their chosen site. A lesson they learned after Hurricane Sandy was that putting backup generators and fuel tanks in the basement is a problem when it floods. East New York is adjacent to Jamaica Bay, so I'm not sure it sits high enough on the shoulder of the Harbor Hills glacial moraine [slidesharecdn.com] to escape a tidal surge. Someplace like Bedford Stuyvesant on the northern shoulder of the moraine seems like it would have similar real estate costs while being more protected from hurricanes that tend to come up from the south.
Washington DC delenda est.