Former Coal Plant Sites Get Second Life With Energy Storage Systems
At a Town Board Meeting in Lansing, N.Y., in July, Ben Broder, Director of Development and Policy Strategy at Colorado-based Bear Peak Power, made a presentation about a proposal that would place a battery energy storage system at the site of the Cayuga Power Plant, a shuttered coal-fired plant.
“This particular project is very exciting because we’re able to put to use an existing interconnection and substation that was used formerly by the Cayuga coal plant,” he said at the meeting.
Broder said that the project would be a 200-megawatt, four-hour duration battery energy storage system. “The footprint of the entire project is only 5.7 acres,” he said. Bear Peak Power has entered into a lease option with the Cayuga Operating Company for the purpose of developing and building the storage system.
In terms of the project’s timeline, Broder said it is expected to be completed in the second quarter of 2026.