Through a competitive solicitation, over US$5 million is being made available for developers of advanced energy storage technologies in New York.
New York State Energy Research and Development Agency (NYSERDA) announced yesterday that it is seeking the development and field-testing of a broad range of technologies through its Power Generation and Storage Innovation Program.
NYSERDA is a public-benefit corporation that offers funding, technical expertise, information, analysis and research programmes designed to align with state policy and benefit the communities of New York.
As such, it plays a major role in advancing state deployment of renewable energy, for example, through solicitations for large-scale solar PV and wind capacity and incentives for distributed solar.
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It is also central to funding incentive schemes for distributed energy storage resources and the forthcoming launch of gigawatt-scale annual competitive solicitations for large-scale energy storage.
In a recent Energy-Storage.news webinar, NYSERDA CEO and president Doreen Harris and VP for large-scale renewables Georges Sassine discussed the bulk energy storage procurement programme, which involves a state-funding risk-sharing revenue underwriting scheme for storage resources over 5MW.
The organisation has just in the past few days celebrated the lifting of an order from US President Donald Trump’s administration to halt work on a key offshore wind energy project off the state’s coast after a period of negotiations.
Integrating new resources like the Empire Wind 1 offshore wind farm into the electricity grid will require flexibility, and energy storage is one of the key tools in providing it.
‘Key to an affordable and energy-resilient future’
New York’s Community Leadership and Climate Protection Act (CLCPA) legislation put in place a 6GW goal for energy storage deployment, and instructed state agencies to explore the need for long-duration energy storage (LDES) which can discharge at full rated power output over several hours.
Aligned with all the above goals, the new competitive funding opportunity will be eligible to electric, chemical, mechanical, thermo-electric long-duration or advanced battery energy storage system (BESS) solutions.
“The possibilities created by innovative energy storage solutions can safely deliver more reliable electricity to New York communities as part of building an affordable and resilient zero-emission future,” NYSERDA CEO and president Doreen Harris said.
‘Advanced’ could be defined as technologies at component level, such as power electronics and control systems, while complementary technologies that could lower energy storage costs, improve performance and make for smoother grid integration will also be considered.
NYSERDA has previously made energy storage innovation funding available through the scheme, which was formerly known as the Renewable Optimization and Energy Storage Innovation Program. More than US$30 million has been awarded to projects featuring technologies including hydrogen electrolysers, zinc batteries, vanadium flow batteries, iron-air batteries and hydroelectric storage.
The funding comes through the NYSERDA Clean Energy Fund, which was approved by regulators and first established in 2016. More details on the solicitation can be found on NYSERDA’s website and proposals are due by 3pm on 24 July 2025.
“Long-duration energy storage and other innovative energy storage technologies will provide critical services to the electrical grid supporting reliability, infrastructure efficiency reducing cost, and enabling our clean energy goals,” Dr William Acker, executive director of the New York Battery and Energy Storage Technology Consortium (NY-BEST), a sort of combined trade association and technology accelerator programme, said.
ESN Premium recently interviewed King Look, director of research and development at New York utility Con Edison, about the role LDES can play in the decarbonisation of New York City, with particular focus on a thermal energy storage technology pilot Con Edison is running.
