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Our support for installation of over 12,200 EV charging plugs is helping New York State meet CLCPA goals.
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Currently totaling 30 MW, our battery storage projects are part of the groundwork needed for an affordable energy transition.
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We avoided over 4.4 billion liters of fugitive methane emissions through our gas main leak repair programs.
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Our New Efficiency: New York (NENY) portfolio of programs provides our customers with financial incentives to help them use less energy as well as electrify their homes and buildings.
Through NENY programs, we have provided our customers $1.5 billion in incentives between 2020 and 2024. In 2024, our incentives helped our customers reduce their energy usage by over 5 million MMBtu. Since inception, our EE Program incentives have helped our customers avoid over 3.7 million metric tons of GHG emissions (see figure 14). These upgrades also helped our customers increase the comfort of their homes and businesses and better manage their energy bills.
Figure 14
Nearly $93 million of the $1.5 billion went to over 160,000 low-to-moderate income (LMI) customer participants in our Affordable Multifamily Energy Efficiency Program. Increasing LMI customer participation in our energy efficiency programs is a core objective of our Clean Energy Commitment.
We have an additional $423 million in customer incentives planned for 2025. As the focus of energy efficiency shifts from simple measures such as installing LED lighting to more involved strategies, we are educating our customers, contractors, municipalities we serve, and the real estate community on how to take advantage of greater savings opportunities, such as building envelope improvements, ground-source heat pumps, and waste heat recovery. In addition to educating the public about these benefits, we partner with local contractors to do the associated work. At present, our network is 281 contractors strong.
We are working with customers, regulators, policymakers, and other stakeholders to both enhance adoption of distributed energy resources (DER) and improve access to them regardless of one’s income level, renter status, or dwelling type in support of both our Clean Energy Commitment and the CLCPA.
In 2024, we hosted 60 DER developer outreach meetings and workshops. Based on participants’ input, we developed a streamlined interconnection standard for DER customers, which spurred a boost in customer-owned energy storage solutions, including four in Staten Island, New York alone, totaling 18 MW. Other outcomes helping to facilitate the interconnection of DER resulting from our outreach include:
We are also helping the New York Independent System Operator (NYISO) implement a DER Aggregator Market to enable greater participation in their wholesale energy market among small DER operators. For instance, we committed funding to developing software that will simplify the Aggregator Market application process through NYISO’s existing online portal.
Summarized in the table and graph below, we continued to make tremendous progress in 2024. This includes over 12,000 installations for a total of 214.3 MW in 2024, thereby bringing our running total past the 1 GW milestone.
DER Technology |
CECONY (MW) |
O&R (MW) |
|---|---|---|
|
Solar |
101.1 |
40.3 |
|
Battery Storage |
43.9 |
11.9 |
|
Combined Heat and Power |
16.6 |
- |
|
Fuel Cells |
0.5 |
- |
|
Total |
162.1 |
52.2 |
Figure 15
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Demonstration Projects
We also explore potential solutions to local energy access and affordability problems with partners through joint clean energy demonstration pilot projects. Our pilots strengthen our relationship with customers and stakeholders, advance energy access and affordability, and facilitate expansion of DER.
Community Power, our most recently completed pilot, ran from 2022 through 2024. It modeled a self-sustainable program for increasing LMI customers’ access to solar power coupled with smart inverter technology. In partnership with a solar energy development firm and the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), the project enabled direct-metered LMI customers in multifamily buildings to access benefits from the solar generation of three solar projects. Enabled by the production of solar energy, program participants received monthly credits from CECONY that reduced their monthly electricity bill. Program participants were not required to pay any upfront or additional fees to participate in this program. This model addressed two persistent challenges for LMI customers: 1) lack of access to clean energy sources; and 2) inability to lower their energy costs. Beneficial outcomes of this pilot include:
Utility Integrated Storage (UIS) are storage assets integrated into our delivery system that support localized grid needs and balance use of renewables with conventional energy sources.
Much like other utility-owned and operated critical infrastructure, our distribution-connected UIS projects help maintain network performance, provide customers with reliable service, and provide opportunities to manage concurrent and evolving needs of the grid. Thereby helping to lay the groundwork for an affordable clean energy transition accessible to all while optimizing the grid for our customers.
Located to provide maximum benefit across our service territory, we operate three UIS projects totaling over 12 MW and are developing another project, which will bring our total to over 18 MW. These projects are all described below.
Site Name |
MW |
Status |
|---|---|---|
|
Ozone Park, New York |
2 |
Active |
|
Pomona, New York |
3 |
Active |
|
Brownsville, New York |
5.8 |
Mid-2025 |
|
Fox Hills, New York |
7.5 |
Active |
Figure 17
Non-Wire Solutions Storage
Non-Wire Solutions support and incentivize third-party owned storage to meet local demand. CECONY has two active program areas across seven distribution networks serving neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Queens, New York.
In 2024, we completed installation and interconnection of two customer-sited battery energy storage systems (BESS) in Queens, New York as part of the Newtown NWS Portfolio. A third customer-sided BESS in the Newtown portfolio is set to be commissioned by summer 2025. Together, these systems will provide approximately 10 MW of summer period peak load relief through 2033 to communities in Queens.
Site Name |
MW |
Status |
|---|---|---|
|
Maspeth, New York |
3.6 |
Mid-2025 |
|
Maspeth, New York |
1.5 |
Active |
|
Borden, New York |
4.7 |
Active |
Figure 18
In addition to the two active projects at CECONY, a third active non-wire solutions project was commissioned at O&R. Fully operational as of early January 2025, our West Warwick, NY BESS uses three separate batteries totaling 12 MW to address system constraints instead of constructing a new transmission-distribution substation.
Site Name |
MW |
Status |
|---|---|---|
|
Warwick, New York |
12 |
Active |
Figure 19
Utility Dispatch Rights
The PSC’s extension of its Utility Dispatch Rights (UDR) program through 2030 provides us greater opportunity to develop contractual arrangements with third-party storage providers. These arrangements allow us to dispatch storage projects to meet wholesale market and distribution needs. Presently, we hold three UDR contracts representing 165 MW. We are expecting the development of a fourth UDR contract in 2025.
Demonstration Projects
Our energy storage demonstration projects test new business models and technologies. Totaling 5 MW, we have two ongoing projects:
Safety and Compliance
To properly integrate our projects into the local grid, we partner with New York City and State officials to meet or exceed safety requirements. We also proactively communicate safety considerations and train emergency personnel. For instance, in 2024, we:
Looking Ahead
In response to the PSC’s request for utilities to develop a new evaluation framework for UIS projects, the Joint Utilities proposal seeks to expand the scale and scope of UIS projects to service grid needs. PSC action on their filing is expected in the latter half of 2025.
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