As New Jersey pursues its clean-energy agenda, the challenge of effective storage and distribution has emerged as critical to realizing the state’s renewable energy potential.
At an NJ Spotlight roundtable on Sept. 20 in Newark, a utility executive, energy-storage executives and a prominent lawmaker agreed that finding the money to jump-start a nascent but crucial sector is one of the biggest hurdles to expanding energy storage in New Jersey.
They also discussed other key questions, including:
- Is New Jersey expanding energy storage solutions quickly enough to allow the scale adoption of renewable energy sources?
- How can the state advance the deployment of energy-storage technologies without sacrificing any resiliency of the traditional power grid?
- What role can microgrids play in enabling energy to be sourced and stored closer to where it will be used by consumers and businesses?
- What kind of incentives may be needed to ensure the state will meet its 2021 energy storage mandates?
Opening remarks:
Victoria Carey, Senior Consultant and Project Manager, DNV GL
Panelists:
Alexandra Coleman, Director, Commercial Risk, Centrica Business Solutions
John Dempsey, Manager of Transmission Development and Strategy, PSE&G
Tom Leyden, Senior Director, Distributed Systems, EDF Renewables
Mark Warner, Vice President, Gabel Associates
Assemblyman Andrew Zwicker, Chair, Science, Innovation and Technology Committee, New Jersey General Assembly
Moderator:
Tom Johnson, Energy Reporter, NJ Spotlight
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WATCH NJTV’S VIDEO OF THE ROUNDTABLE
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