Billion-Dollar Substation -Or- Storage

Con Edison is keen to avoid having to build a
. . . US$1 billion substation infrastructure in New York and
. . . believes residential customer-side energy storage, could be part of the answer,
. . . to its need for meeting increasing energy demands.

Cosmin Laslau, an analyst with Boston-based Lux Research said,
. . . the work of companies such as SolarCity and Tesla, deploying storage,
. . . to integrate solar at residential and small commercial scale will proliferate.

SolarCity public policy spokesman Will Craven said,
. . . that although there had been tensions between solar and
. . . the electric utility industry historically,
. . . storage offered a good opportunity to address,
. . . some of the technical causes of that tension.

07-31-2014 Source: Billion-dollar substation -or- Storage