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Executives from Con Edison, Macerich, Source One, and Veolia attended the celebratory
event at King’s Plaza this Tuesday. Photos by Derrick Watterson
Shopping center hooks in-house power
plant to the grid to prevent blackouts
BY ELISSA ESHER
The king of Mill Basin retail is sharing
its power!
Kings Plaza Shopping Center celebrated
a partnership with Con Edison
on Tuesday to prevent blackouts
by providing energy generated by the
mall’s in-house power plants to surrounding
neighborhoods.
The retail complex is equipped
with four natural-gas powered Deutz
engines that generate 12 megawatts
of energy, which — while less than
one tenth of a percent of the 1.21 gigawatts
needed to power the time machine
from “Back to the Future” — is
twice as much power required to fuel
the shopping center’s more than 120
stores.
So the honchos at Macerich — the
real estate investment trust that owns
Kings Plaza — decided to partner with
Con Edison to hook the mall’s power
plant up to the city’s grid, giving the
utility company the option of purchasing
power from the mall and thereby
tripling the capacity of Brooklyn’s Demand
Response Program, which relieves
stress during peak electrical
demand.
“We are powered by roughly six
megawatts, we’re giving the six we
don’t use back to the community.” said
Joseph Venne, Vice President of Operations
at Macerich. “Now, hopefully, we
can look forward to blackouts not happening
The Con Edison independent power plant
connects to Kings Plaza to bring additional
energy to Brooklyn.
nearly as often in the future.”
While the partnership was celebrated
earlier this week, Kings Plaza
generators actually began supplying
the city with power on June 1, proving
the extra supply wasn’t enough to
prevent the days long blackouts that
struck southern Brooklyn neighborhoods,
including Canarsie, Mill Basin,
and Marine Park in late July, a
fact Venne attribute to the brutal heat
wave that proceeded the loss of power.
“We know how important energy is
with the outages, this summer being
more severe than most,” he said.
Still, it’s better than nothing, and
Mill Basin Councilman Alan Maisel
applauded the mall for sharing its
juice with Brooklyn.
“King’s plaza, over the past few
years, has really tried to make themselves
part of the community,” said
Maisel. “This is a great example of
that. They’re being a good neighbor.”
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