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Long Island City Will Soon Be Home to New York’s Biggest Battery

Ravenswood Power Plant in Long Island City, New York.Photographer: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg
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New York regulators approved plans to build the state’s biggest battery system at an aging power plant along the East River in Queens.

The 316-megawatt system will be powerful enough to provide electricity to more than 250,000 households for up to eight hours at a clip, helping stabilize Consolidated Edison Inc.’s grid and curtail use of oil and natural gas, according to to a statementBloomberg Terminal Thursday from the New York Public Service Commission.