New York’s electricity market operator is evaluating the role energy storage technologies could play as part of the transmission network.

Leyline Renewable Capital has provided loans to developers RAI Energy and Grid Connected Infrastructure (GCI) for solar and storage projects.

Long-duration energy storage (LDES) may be in something of a ‘dot com’ moment, but grid operators cannot afford the ‘hiccup’ of any bubble bursting, a senior ISO manager said at Energy Storage Summit USA.

Energy storage could be a powerful asset in facilitating transmission upgrades required for New York’s low carbon energy transition.

Another serving of news in brief from around the world in energy storage.

Qcells has followed up the start of construction on its first-ever standalone BESS project with the announcement of three more projects.

There could be nearly 13GW of energy storage on the grid in New York by 2052, according to the state’s grid operator NYISO.

Vertically integrated solar PV company SunPower and residential battery storage provider sonnen have each started up programmes to deploy solar-plus-storage for communities in California and New York respectively.

The US’ Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has blocked a request to delay implementation of new market participation rules for energy storage made by the Mid-Continent Independent System Operator (MISO).