New Guidelines to Streamline New Energy Storage Projects Adopted in New York City

The city of New York wants more capacity to store energy, so it's making the process of permitting energy storage projects easier to understand and follows.

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May 12, 2018, 5:00 AM PDT

By James Brasuell @CasualBrasuell


New York City released a comprehensive set of guidelines [pdf] designed to make it easier to permit and construct energy storage projects. The new guidelines will help the city meet its target of 100 megawatts of energy storage by 2020.

Peter Maloney shares news of the new guidelines, approved at the end of April 2018, which focus on lithium ion batteries, constructed in outdoor settings, such as root tops. The report creates three classifications of project, based on the amount of energy storage, with standards for each.

"The guidelines were the result of a collaboration among the City University of New York (CUNY) Smart Distributed Generation Hub, the Fire Department of New York (FDNY), the NYC Department of Buildings (DOB), Consolidated Edison and the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA)," reports Maloney.

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