The Clean Fight Welcomes Anchor Customer Collaborators NineDot Energy, Con Edison, National Grid, and Pilot Partner NYCEDC to its Latest Deployment Accelerator
We’re thrilled to announce the involvement of our anchor customer partners in the sixth edition of The Clean Fight focused on energy storage deployment in New York State. They include energy storage developer NineDot Energy, utilities Con Edison and National Grid, and pilot partner New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC). These are leaders in the field looking to help New York State achieve its ambitious goal of 6 GW of energy storage by 2030 and reinforce the State’s position as a hub for energy storage innovation, development, and manufacturing. Watch out for future announcements on customer collaborators in additional energy storage segments coming soon.
Why Focus on Energy Storage?
Developing energy storage—the batteries, microgrids, and other technologies that allow us to manage energy fluctuations, access backup power, and produce clean energy when we need it, where we need it—is key to realizing a resilient, electrified future. This is especially true for high-demand regions like New York State that have a broad spectrum of grid needs.
There is vast, untapped potential for energy storage deployment in New York State and significant momentum behind the industry—from the State’s approval of the New York Energy Storage Roadmap 2.0, to the establishment of a national hub to test and manufacture next-gen batteries, and the creation of the New Energy New York coalition as a hub for manufacturing, testing, workforce development, and innovation. There is also a robust ecosystem of actors ready to support the energy storage industry’s growth, including the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA), a nation-leading state agency driving clean energy market growth, and energy storage experts New York Battery and Energy Storage Technology Consortium (NY-BEST).
About the Program
To meet this moment, in collaboration with New Energy New York, NY-BEST, and with the support of NYSERDA, we’re looking for innovative growth-stage battery and energy storage solutions that are ready to deploy in New York State.
Our Energy Storage Deployment Accelerator is laser-focused on helping growth-stage companies from around the world scale in New York. How? Through high-touch business development with customer partners, supply chain partners, and developers, connections to the right sources of capital to meet your growth needs, access to up to $100k in grant funding per project to facilitate demonstration projects in New York State, and support from New York's leading energy storage experts NY-BEST.
Our desired solution set includes: grid-edge software, battery monitoring systems, stationary storage systems, storage + DERs, thermal storage, transportation battery packs and systems, and more.
Get your application in today. Applications for the sixth edition of The Clean Fight close April 21st, 2025. Learn more and apply to the program.
World Class Capital Partners
In addition to our customer partners, The Clean Fight’s outstanding annual capital partners will work with cohort companies to find the right financial solutions to support their growth from venture capital, venture debt, credit, project finance, working capital, and more. Our capital partners include:
Stay tuned for the Spring, when we will announce the official selection for the sixth edition of The Clean Fight.
If you’re interested in becoming a customer collaborator in the program, contact molly.rafelson@newenergynexus.com.
For any additional questions, get in touch at hello@thecleanfight.com.
About The Clean Fight
The Clean Fight is a not-for-profit dedicated to accelerating the equitable adoption of climate solutions in New York State and beyond. Given that many of the technologies we need to solve the climate crisis already exist, it’s imperative that we ensure they are adopted quickly, equitably, and at scale. To enable this adoption, The Clean Fight designs and implements programs to prove out the most impactful strategies to remove key barriers to adoption of scale-ready solutions. The Clean Fight is supported by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA), and the U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA), and is a chapter of New Energy Nexus.
About Con Edison
Con Edison has fueled and sustained the growth of Greater New York since the company’s founding in 1823. The company operates one of the world’s largest energy delivery systems, and provides electric, gas, and steam service for more than 9 million people who live in New York City and Westchester County. Con Edison’s electric service is ranked as the most reliable in the nation due to ongoing strategic investments and the expertise of the company’s workforce.
About National Grid
National Grid is an electricity, natural gas, and clean energy delivery company serving more than 20 million people through our networks in New York and Massachusetts. National Grid is focused on building a smarter, stronger, cleaner energy future — transforming our networks with more reliable and resilient energy solutions to meet state climate goals and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
About NineDot Energy
NineDot Energy is the leading developer of community-scale battery energy storage systems (BESS) in the New York City metropolitan area. With projects in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island as well as Westchester County, NineDot Energy is helping to make our local power grid cleaner, more resilient, more equitable and less costly, supporting New York’s energy transition.
About NYCEDC
New York City Economic Development Corporation is a mission-driven, nonprofit organization that works for a vibrant, inclusive, and globally competitive economy for all New Yorkers. They take a comprehensive approach, through four main strategies: strengthen confidence in NYC as a great place to do business; grow innovative sectors with a focus on equity; build neighborhoods as places to live, learn, work, and play; and deliver sustainable infrastructure for communities and the city's future economy. To learn more about what they do, visit them on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Instagram.