{"id":656,"date":"2025-06-30T12:58:27","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T16:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/apex\/?p=656"},"modified":"2025-06-30T12:58:28","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T16:58:28","slug":"explaining-the-need-for-battery-energy-storage-in-ottawa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/apex\/2025\/explaining-the-need-for-battery-energy-storage-in-ottawa\/","title":{"rendered":"Explaining the need for battery energy storage in Ottawa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Explaining the need for battery energy storage in Ottawa\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p>Professor Schell was interviewed by Stu Mills of CBC Ottawa to explain the need for battery energy storage systems in the Ontario power grid, and particularly in Ottawa. With electricity demand expected to increase 166% in the Ottawa area (compared to the 75% average across Ontario) Ottawa\u2019s grid is in dire need of reinforcement, and batteries provide the cheapest and quickest solution to ensuring power quality and reliability in our area. You can listen to the full interview\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/listen\/live-radio\/1-92-all-in-a-day\/clip\/16153826-why-battery-energy-storage-plant-ottawa-now\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Schell was interviewed by Stu Mills of CBC Ottawa to explain the need for battery energy storage systems in the Ontario power grid, and particularly in Ottawa. With electricity demand expected to increase 166% in the Ottawa area (compared to the 75% average across Ontario) Ottawa\u2019s grid is in dire need of reinforcement, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":287,"featured_media":662,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[22,27],"tags":[58,44,62,61,38,60,39],"class_list":["post-656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-research","tag-battery-energy-storage","tag-energy-engineering","tag-hydro-one","tag-hydro-ottawa","tag-net-zero","tag-ottawa-energy-transition","tag-sustainable-energy"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/apex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/apex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/apex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/apex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/287"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/apex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/apex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":657,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/apex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656\/revisions\/657"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/apex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/apex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/apex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/apex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}