PEARL RIVER – Orange and Rockland Utilities will be partnering with Smarter Grid Solutions, Inc. on a demonstration project designed to help developers more affordably interconnect solar energy projects to the power grid and drive greater export of renewable energy to O&R’s system.
The project will test technologies that will monitor, measure and regulate the transfer of electricity from large-scale solar projects into the O&R system. Those technologies will manage the power flow to match the real-time capacity available in the O&R system. This project will provide solar developers an alternative interconnection technology in lieu of traditional electric infrastructure upgrades.
The state Public Service Commission has endorsed the project.
