New York City Sets the First Citywide Energy Storage Target

Greentech Media:  Only two U.S. states, California and Massachusetts, have set targets for energy storage deployments. Now New York City has joined them.

The city government unveiled a storage goal of 100 megawatt-hours by 2020 last week, along with an expanded solar target of 1,000 megawatts by 2030. Storage, with its capacity to integrate variable wind and solar power sources into the grid, is expected to play a critical role in meeting the city's plans to cut greenhouse gases by 80 percent by 2050.

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