NYSERDA’s Residential and Retail Energy Storage Incentives are structured as fixed-rate incentives based on the storage systems capacity, measured in kilowatt hours (kWh). The Retail Energy Storage Incentives are available for new commercial scale distributed (retail) energy storage projects up to 5 megawatts (MW) that are either located behind a customer’s electric meter or interconnected directly to the distribution network. Projects must provide value to a customer under an investor-owned utility rate, such as offsetting demand charges, participating in a utility demand response program, or receiving compensation under New York State’s value of distributed energy resources (VDER) tariff.
