New York awards 22 solar and battery projects totaling 2.4 gigawatts – EQ Mag Pro
New York has awarded 22 solar PV projects totalling 2.4GW of power, including six co-located sites with a combined 159MW of battery energy storage systems (BESS).
The awards represent the state’s largest land-based procurement of renewable energy to-date, first covered by Energy-Storage.news‘ sister site PV Tech. The 22 projects will require US$2.7 billion in investment and some or all should be online by 2025.
Winning co-located projects from developers EDF Renewables (three) and Boralex (one) account for 85% of the 159MW of awarded BESS capacity, with ReneSola Power and Northland Power also adding storage onto their winning solar projects.
EDF Renewables, part of the global French state-owned energy group, will deliver three sites with 20MW of BESS each: Columbia Solar Energy Center in Herkimer County, Ridge View Solar Energy Center in Niagara County and Rich Road Solar Energy Center in St. Lawrence County.
Columbia and Ridge View are also the largest winning solar projects by power, with 350MWac each, and Rich Road’s 250MWac brings EDF’s total contribution to 950MW, 40% of the 2,408MW awarded.
Boralex is pairing its 250MW Fort Covington Solar Farm with a 77MW/308MWh (four hours) BESS, in Suffolk County, while its four other winning projects are standalone solar: all five total 540MW of solar power.
Source: ieefa
