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Con Edison Contracts Its Biggest Battery to Date in New York City

GreenTechMedia

New York utility Con Edison has signed its biggest energy storage contract to date, a 100-megawatt/400-megawatt-hour lithium-ion battery project that will help balance a grid facing rising levels of offshore wind and other renewable power in the years to come. It has already awarded 1.7 GW more this summer.

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A 21st-century reinvention of the electric grid is crucial for solving the climate change crisis

Renewable Energy World

The original foundation was a combination of “base load” coal plants that operated 24 hours a day and large-scale hydropower. Beginning in 1958, these were augmented by nuclear power plants, which have operated nearly continuously to pay off their large capital investments. However, new nuclear plants in the U.S.