Can We Solve the Massive Rate Hikes for Customers of California’s Largest Utilities?

• May 2 2022

As we plunge into the third year of a global pandemic, the world is experiencing little relief from ever-increasing prices. Aggravating the situation, supply chain disruptions intensified by the war in Ukraine have caused inflation rates to soar to levels not seen since 1982.

Con Edison Deploys Battery Technology to Improve Reliability in Woodside, Queens

• March 22, 2022
• Press Release

Con Edison has boosted reliability for customers in an area of central Queens by placing a battery system off 52nd Avenue in the Woodside area.

Endurant Energy Takes Ownership of Pioneering New York City Battery Energy Storage Systems

• Jan 13 2022
• Press Release

Endurant Energy, a full-service distributed energy resources developer and owner, today announced the completed acquisition of the battery energy storage systems that Endurant developed for Con Edison’s Demonstration Project across New York City.

Endurant Energy and Bluehouse Greenhouse Enter Strategic Partnership to Form Bluehouse Energy

• Aug 9 2021

Endurant Energy (“Endurant”) and Bluehouse Greenhouse Inc (“BHGH”) today announced a strategic partnership to form Bluehouse Energy (“BHE”). Endurant, a full-service developer, owner and operator of innovative, reliable, and resilient clean energy infrastructure solutions, will invest up to $30 million in the development of an on-site 13.2 MW quad-generation (“Quadgen” – providing electricity, hot and chilled water and CO2) Energy Center ("EC").

LS Power acquires clean energy solutions provider GI Energy, launches rebranded company as Endurant Energy

• May 6 2021
• Press Release

LS Power, a U.S. power and energy infrastructure owner, today announced the completed acquisition of distributed energy infrastructure solutions provider GI Energy, which will henceforth be rebranded as “Endurant Energy” (Endurant).

ConEd and GI Energy advance new model for storage deployment with Bronx project

• Apr 19 2021
• Utility Dive's Jason Plautz

Con Edison and GI Energy partnered on a unique demonstration project, installing a 1 MW battery storage project on a customer property on City Island in the Bronx. The project will delivery power to businesses along the commercial strip in the summer, relieving grid strain when temperatures rise.

Con Edison Press Release: Battery Project Enhances Reliability to Con Edison Customers on City Island

• Apr 12 2021

A 1 MW battery system, installed by GI Energy and Con Edison, will alleviate the Con Edison grid on hot summer days and displace demand for fossil fuel fired electricity on City Island in the Bronx. Read the press release by Con Edison.

In Remembrance of Evert Fink

• March 2021

Senate Bill 1339 Briefing Paper

• Jan 25 2021
• Rhetta Maynard

Senate Bill 1339, passed by the California Public Utilities Commission, is re-writing how microgrids will be developed by the state. In this brief, we answer what the bill is hoping to achieve and the current status of its implementation.

New York is revolutionizing battery projects by allowing dual participation

• Oct 26 2020
• Rhetta Maynard with Pete Falcier

This year, the New York Independent System Operator (NYISO) officially became the first grid operator to allow storage technologies to play a dual participating role in energy markets. This type of participation will facilitate battery installations across New York and the country as other grid operators follow their lead. To successfully develop and operate these systems, the intricacies of dual participation dispatch will need to be fully understood; and the Con Edison REV Demonstration pilot project will serve as an important example.

Geothermal-exchange energy - a price worth paying

• Oct 19 2020
• Jon Passmore

Remarks in light of NYSERDA's planned November 2020 introduction of support for geo-exchange.

Integrating CHP and Battery Storage - The Financial Case for Hybrid Solutions

• Jan 28
• Aksheya Chandar

We introduced the concept of hybrid Combined Heat and Power (“CHP”) and Battery Energy Storage Systems (“BESS”) and went on to examine the technical use case that lends itself well to such configurations. However, success of an energy project is eventually contingent on financial returns. In the final post in this series, we examine the factors that contribute to financial success of a hybrid solution.

Integrating CHP and Battery Storage - The Technical Case for Hybrid Solutions

• Jan 15
• Aksheya Chandar

In the previous post in this series examining the integration of Combined Heat and Power (“CHP”) and Battery Energy Storage Systems (“BESS”), we introduced the common issues faced by CHP systems and how BESS serves to mitigate them. In this post, we dive deeper into the technical feasibility of a hybrid solution by studying load profiles and identifying trends that lend themselves well to hybrid solutions.

Integrating CHP and Battery Storage

• Jan 04
• Aksheya Chandar

The clean energy revolution has resulted in several technology, market, and policy drivers to accelerate the deployment of distributed energy resources. As the industry continues to evolve, innovative technical and financial configurations have come to life, each contextualized to hyper-local incentives, load profiles and customer goals. In this series of blogposts, GI Energy examines integrating two technologies that have the technical potential to complement each other’s performance; Combined Heat and Power (“CHP”) and Battery Energy Storage Systems (“BESS”). We start by introducing the concept and go on to study and technical and financial use cases that support this hybrid configuration.

SGIP Equity Budget Updates

• Oct 10
• Alexandra Caryotakis

On our blog earlier this year, GI Energy published a briefing on California’s SGIP. Since 2001, SGIP has offered financial incentives for distributed energy resource (DER) systems installed behind the customer meter. SGIP has undergone many changes since its inception, one of which being the creation of an equity budget in October 2017. The equity budget set aside a portion of SGIP funds for low income households and environmentally burdened communities. Now, SGIP has been updated once more to set aside a portion of the equity budget for resiliency purposes.

Battery Fire Safety

• Sep 30
• Admin

As lithium-ion energy storage systems proliferate across the country, safety concerns are, reasonably, being raised. GI Energy is in the process of installing four 1 MWh / 1 MW systems across New York City.

A visit to the inaugural Global Climate Action Summit

• Sep 17
• Admin

Tom Chadwick, GI Energy’s CEO, attended the “Zero Carbon in California: Building for the Future” breakout session. This blog discusses the bold ideas that stood out to him at the event.

Cooling tempers and improving academic results: impacts of temperature to individuals and communities

• Jun 25
• Admin

Summer has (finally) arrived in Chicago, and prompted a discussion amongst GI Energy’s team: what are the societal implications of getting temperatures right? What are the outcomes of an energy system that works?

Microgrid 2019 Conference in San Diego

• Jun 12
• Admin

The 2019 Microgrid Knowledge conference in San Diego, California brought together developers, utilities, technology firms, and end-users to learn and share the latest in microgrids. This blog discusses what our team thought were the highlights of the conference and GI Energy's involvement on two of it's panels.

Thought Piece: Microgrid Adoption – GIE Advocates Licensing of Microgrids, as Telecoms Industry Licenses Frequencies

• Jun 12
• Admin

The market potential for microgrids is becoming clearer, and the value proposition is well articulated...

Briefing: California’s Self-Generation Incentive Program (SGIP)

• Apr 10
• Charlotte

The Californian SGIP offers financial incentives for distributed energy resource (DER) systems installed behind the customer meter in California. We have analyzed it’s potential impacts for our customers.

The Climate Reality Project – Leadership Corps

• Apr 3
• Charlotte

In the News: Con Edison and GI Energy pilot new approach to increasing battery storage on the grid

• Apr 10
• Charlotte

We developed REV demo project for Con Edison, an innovative Front-of-the-Meter energy storage solution. We talked to Utility Dive about it.

The NY-BEST in the business

• Mar 25
• Admin

The NY-BEST (New York Battery & Energy Storage Technology) Conference brought together the “best” battery manufacturers, developers, suppliers and consultants in New York State (NYS). Featured speakers included leading policy entities such as NYSERDA, NRDC, and NYS Department of Public Service (DPS) – very appropriate given the urgency of the state’s upcoming storage goal of 3,000 MW by 2030.

A different sort of energy...

• Mar 15
• Admin

GI Energy is proud to sponsor the Joffrey Ballet via its 9th annual ‘Winning Works’ program, a choreographic competition for ALAANA (African, LatinX, Asian, Arab and Native American) artists.

Campus energy solutions - as discussed at IDEA

• Mar 7
• Admin

GI Energy was listening hard to attendees of the International District Energy Association (IDEA) Campus Energy 2019 Conference in New Orleans, LA last week. Their conversations reflected many campuses underlying energy concerns, thoughts and aspirations: from what source should energy be generated? What technologies are available to support the transition to ‘clean energy’?

Conference Learnings: DistribuTECH

• Feb 25
• Admin

GI Energy (GIE) recently exhibited at the 2019 DistribuTECH conference in New Orleans, LA. This conference brought together ~13,000 energy professionals from utilities across the country, as well as developers and manufacturers from across the globe.

Los Angeles On Course to Eliminate Natural-Gas Fired Electric Generation

• Feb 15
• Admin

On February 12, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti announced that the LA Department of Water and Power (LADWP) will not move forward with upgrading three key coastal natural gas-fired power plants in the LA basin.

Energy storage: the Californian opportunities and exciting new technologies we learned about at ESNA

• Nov 18
• Admin

The GI Energy (GIE) team recently attended the Energy Storage North America (ESNA) conference in Pasadena, CA. The convention was lively and innovation was in the air, as energy storage suppliers, project developers, and end-users converged to discuss the future of energy storage.

GI Energy’s feeling positive about FERC’s energy storage plans

• Oct 31
• Admin

James Robinson, from GI Energy’s development team, recently attended the Storage East conference in Washington DC. FERC Chairman Neil Chatterjee and Con Edison’s Adrienne Lalle were two highlights.