[USA] “Governor Cuomo Announces New York Energy Storage Roadmap to Achieve Nation-Leading Target of 1,500 Megawatts by 2025 to Combat Climate Change”

[New York State, 21 June 2018]

On June 21, 2018 New York Governor Andrew Cuomo introduced a new comprehensive Energy Storage Roadmap that will set an energy storage target of 1,500 MW by 2025 for the state of New York. This Roadmap also encourages the energy system in New York to become cleaner, more resilient, and more affordable so “all New Yorkers…[can] combat climate change.” The Roadmap also provides short-term suggestions on how energy storage can best add value for the state’s electricity consumers. In addition, it is believed that meeting this target will add $2 billion of “gross lifetime benefits to New Yorkers” and will add another 30,000 new jobs to the industry. Governor Cuomo stated that “clean energy is the future of our planet, and New York will continue to lead the nation in this technology to fight climate change and conserve resources for generations to come.”