Combining clean energy production and storage creates a new distributed generation paradigm, the interconnected microgrid. These mini-utilities are being integrated into communities for increased resiliency, decreased toxic emissions, and climate change mitigation - but can they also be beautiful?

The public sector and utilities are working furiously to launch community shared solar in New York City, but not much is as yet visible publicly. Unlike the “retail” solar efforts to date, which focus on lowering costs for building owners (e.g. Solarize campaign), much of the focus of the community shared solar initiatives is on providing solar access to low-income customers.

With costs dropping and fire codes being written, battery storage in New York City is becoming an attractive option to help manage peak loads. In this session we will explore actual NYC installations and the required considerations to successfully complete a battery storage project. We will also explore near- and long-term projections, and challenges for the battery storage industry as a whole.