New York can’t buy its way out of blackouts | Energy Central

New York can’t buy its way out of blackouts | Energy Central: New York City will soon be home to the world’s biggest utility-scale battery system, designed to back up its growing reliance on intermittent renewables. At 400 MWh this batch of batteries will be more than triple the 129 MWh world leader in Australia.The City of New York’s director of sustainability (I am not making this title up), Mark Chambers, is ecstatic, bragging: