{"id":117504,"date":"2020-12-21T19:23:34","date_gmt":"2020-12-22T03:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/we-think-weve-found-the-answer-the-supercell-that-could-bring-safe-energy-storage-to-new-york"},"modified":"2020-12-21T19:23:34","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T03:23:34","slug":"we-think-weve-found-the-answer-the-supercell-that-could-bring-safe-energy-storage-to-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/we-think-weve-found-the-answer-the-supercell-that-could-bring-safe-energy-storage-to-new-york","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We think we\u2019ve found the answer\u2019: The \u2018Supercell\u2019 that could bring safe energy storage to New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/we-think-weve-found-the-answer-the-supercell-that-could-bring-safe-energy-storage-to-new-york2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New York has among the world\u2019s tightest rules on fire safety and regular readers of this site will be aware that that has had a big impact on the ability to site lithium-ion based battery energy storage systems (BESS) within the boundaries of the state\u2019s urban regions.<\/p>\n<p>While the development of large-scale systems is taking place in less densely populated upstate areas of New York, commercial and industrial (C&amp;I) battery storage, which has been used elsewhere around the country to help businesses manage their energy costs and the wider network to adopt greater shares of renewables, has not really been able to gain a foothold.<\/p>\n<p>A couple of weeks ago the New York Power Authority (NYPA) \u2014 a public-benefit corporation which serves around 25% of the state\u2019s electric load \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.energy-storage.news\/news\/new-york-power-authority-kicks-off-pilot-to-trial-safe-lithium-ion-supercel\">began trialling an energy storage system using lithium batteries based around start-up Cadenza Innovation\u2019s \u2019Supercell\u2019 architecture<\/a>. Wrapping individual cells into a protective housing, the technology is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.energy-storage.news\/news\/ul-certification-proves-innovative-battery-platform-can-stop-thermal-runawa\">low-cost way to prevent thermal runaway from cascading through a battery rack<\/a> and causing fires.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York has among the world\u2019s tightest rules on fire safety and regular readers of this site will be aware that that has had a big impact on the ability to site lithium-ion based battery energy storage systems (BESS) within the boundaries of the state\u2019s urban regions. While the development of large-scale systems is taking [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}