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What has the Department of Citywide Administrative Services (DCAS) learned from its energy storage pilot program?

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The Department of Citywide Administrative Services (DCAS) shares insights from their energy storage pilot program, highlighting its importance for future scaling.

DCAS values the pilot program for the vital lessons learned applicable to larger scale projects.
Key learnings include challenges in installing storage systems, dealing with interconnectivity issues, and understanding costs.
Operation and Maintenance (O&M) issues are among the topics learned from the pilot.
These lessons are essential for the further scaling of DCAS's energy projects.

Sandy Nurse

0:50:47

What has decast learned from its energy storage pilot program, if there's anything you wanna share with us.

0:50:55

Big takeaways.

Sanna Barakat

0:50:56

Yeah.

0:50:58

So I just wanna say that we we were very we still we still are very excited about the pilot program because with the pilot that you learned a lot, right, all the lessons learned that you get from the pilots, you could you would apply it to larger scale systems.

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Right?

0:51:13

And that's that's the idea.

0:51:15

And it's been great because we the lessons learned include, you know, the challenges that would have with installing source systems, interconnectivity, interconnection.

0:51:29

You know, we learned about the cost.

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We learned about O and M issues and so on.

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So all these lessons, obviously, are going to be used to to further the scaling of our projects.

Sandy Nurse

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Oh, you

Sanna Barakat

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wanna add anything?

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Okay.

Steven Caputo

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Thanks.

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No.

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It's fine.

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