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    New York Apartment sites playing host to new Zinc-based Energy Storage and CHP projects

    Jan. 18, 2022
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    Combined heat and power (CHP) and on-site renewables developer Digital Energy and Zinc8 Energy Solutions have agreed to install the latter’s 100-kW/1.5-MWh zinc-air energy storage system (ZESS) as a demonstration project at an apartment complex in Queens, New York.

    The ZESS will support a CHP system currently under construction at Fresh Meadows Apartments, which also will play host to a solar power array. The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, NYSERDA, is helping to financially support the demonstration.

    NYSERDA chose Digital Energy Corp, and Zinc8 as the Energy Storage System manufacturer to demonstrate the economics and reliability of Zinc8's patented zinc-air battery technology for low-cost long-duration storage in a behind-the-meter application.

    Fresh Meadows Community Apartments is a master planned 32-building housing development, which is owned by Cammeby Realty Corp. Some 4,000 rooftop solar panels were added beginning in 2019.

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    "Digital Energy and Integrated Energy Concepts are excited about working with Zinc8 Energy on the deployment of the Zinc8 Energy Storage system at Fresh Meadows Apartments. Zinc8's energy storage system offers a safe, robust and economic solution and we welcome the opportunity to showcase their systems to our customer network" said William Cristofaro, President and CEO of Digital Energy Corp.

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    Under the Deployment Agreement with Digital Energy, Zinc8 and Digital will not only work together on the Fresh Meadows project but continue working to identify similar projects in the New York market.

    About a decade ago Cammeby undertook a sub-metering energy efficiency project at many of its buildings which reportedly saved about eight million kWh per year in energy usage.

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    (Rod Walton, senior editor for EnergyTech, is a 14-year veteran of covering the energy industry both as a newspaper and trade journalist. He can reached at [email protected]).

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    Rod Walton, EnergyTech Managing Editor | Senior Editor

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    Rod Walton has spent 15 years covering the energy industry as a newspaper and trade journalist. He formerly was energy writer and business editor at the Tulsa World. Later, he spent six years covering the electricity power sector for Pennwell and Clarion Events. He joined Endeavor and EnergyTech in November 2021.

    Walton earned his Bachelors degree in journalism from the University of Oklahoma. His career stops include the Moore American, Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise, Wagoner Tribune and Tulsa World. 

    EnergyTech is focused on the mission critical and large-scale energy users and their sustainability and resiliency goals. These include the commercial and industrial sectors, as well as the military, universities, data centers and microgrids. The C&I sectors together account for close to 30 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S.

    He was named Managing Editor for Microgrid Knowledge and EnergyTech starting July 1, 2023

    Many large-scale energy users such as Fortune 500 companies, and mission-critical users such as military bases, universities, healthcare facilities, public safety and data centers, shifting their energy priorities to reach net-zero carbon goals within the coming decades. These include plans for renewable energy power purchase agreements, but also on-site resiliency projects such as microgrids, combined heat and power, rooftop solar, energy storage, digitalization and building efficiency upgrades.

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