NY 5 MW Battery Site Search
Distribution lines where a 5 MW battery can both charge and discharge, at 10 kV and up, with land nearby. Utility data pulled 2026-09-14.
Top 10 sites
One site per line and per town. Click a site to fly to it.
Qualifying lines
Battery capacity = the lower of charge and discharge hosting capacity on each line section.
Utility
Candidate sites
Tax parcels of 1 acre or more within 300 ft of a qualifying line. Hollow rings are OpenStreetMap land-use areas in counties with no public parcels.
Local battery rules
GFE NY moratorium database v6, snapshot 2026-09-02. Sites in prohibited or moratorium towns are removed from the ranking.
Other layers
Base map
Sources
- National Grid NY System Data Portal, ESS Discharge and Charge layers (PrimaryLevel). systemdataportal.nationalgrid.com/NY. Accessed 2026-09-14.
- NYSEG and RG&E NY_HC_BESS charging and discharging layers. Avangrid ArcGIS service. Accessed 2026-09-14.
- Con Edison and O&R EV and storage charge and discharge capacity layers. Con Edison ArcGIS services. Accessed 2026-09-14.
- Central Hudson Energy_Storage_HC layer, fields as labeled in its Energy Storage Hosting Capacity web map. Central Hudson ArcGIS service. Accessed 2026-09-14.
- PSEG Long Island hosting capacity map requires an ArcGIS login, so Long Island is not screened. PSEG-LI map. Checked 2026-09-14.
- Parcels NYS Tax Parcels Public layer (38 counties) plus 20 county parcel layers. NYS GIS Program Office. Accessed 2026-09-14. Property class codes: NYS ORPS property type classification codes.
- Land use outside parcel counties OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), landuse industrial, commercial, retail and brownfield, via Overpass API. Downloaded 2026-09-14.
- Urban areas US Census Bureau 2020 Urban Areas cartographic boundary file (cb_2020_us_ua20_500k). Rural codes USDA ERS Rural-Urban Commuting Area codes 2020, census tracts. ERS RUCA. Accessed 2026-09-14.
- Local battery rules GFE NY Renewable Moratorium database v6 (internal), snapshot 2026-09-02, with NYS Civil Boundaries polygons, plus town law checks on 2026-09-14 for the top sites. UNKNOWN means the code could not be read, not that batteries are allowed.
- Village and city utility areas NYS Electric Utility Service Territories, data.ny.gov dataset awza-4vgu. Accessed 2026-09-14.
- Parks Adirondack Park Agency Blue Line polygon and NYS DEC Catskill Park boundary (ArcGIS Online). Accessed 2026-09-14.
- Base maps Esri World Dark Gray Canvas, World Imagery and World Street Map.
- Hosting capacity is a screening number published by each utility. It is not an interconnection approval.