Key Capture Energy selects NEC Energy Solutions to deliver battery storage project in New York

Key Capture Energy (KCE) and NEC Energy Solutions (NEC) have announced that they are teaming up to work together on KCE NY 1, a 20 megawatt (MW) battery storage project in Saratoga County, New York. KCE NY 1 is a key part of the next generation of the New York electric grid and will enhance the power grid’s performance and reliability with reduced carbon emissions, while promoting economic and job growth in upstate New York. NEC will provide KCE with a best-in-class technology solution for the Saratoga County project, as well as turnkey engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) services from a New York firm.

KCE and NEC joined to break ground on the KCE NY 1 project last Sep.26, 2018, commencing construction.

KCE’s NY 1 project is the largest lithium-ion battery storage project in New York State and supports to reach 1,500 MW of energy storage by 2025. It was recognized that in addition to providing roughly $2 billion in gross benefits and avoiding more than one million metric tons of CO2 emissions, by 2030 New York’s energy storage industry could employ approximately 30,000.