Lending a Helping Hand to Our Neighbors

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For our June monthly tradition of service, we were pleased to help serve meals for approximately 75 adults and several children at the Capital City Rescue Mission in Albany. Our team stayed through dinner and cleaned up the space in preparation for the attendees’ safe night of rest. Founded in 1949, the Capital City Rescue…

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Running for a Cause

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Last month, Key Capture Energy participated in the 3.5-mile CDPHP Workforce Team Challenge, New York Capital Region’s largest annual road race. The race fell smack in the middle of a week-long all employee strategy meeting, which took place at our headquarters in Albany. While many members of our team have competed in this race in…

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Giving Back to the Community

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At Key Capture Energy, being a good community steward is an important part of our corporate culture. Our monthly community volunteer efforts allow us to give back to different local programs. Last month, in Albany, we teamed up with the Stephen and Harriet Myers Middle School to participate in their afterschool program, The Vegetable Project.…

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We’re hiring!

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Key Capture Energy is looking for smart, hardworking individuals focused on building large-scale energy storage projects today that will transition us to the grid of tomorrow. As a company, we are dedicated to promoting diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion. We think work-life balance is important, and every day we strive to help our employees maintain that…

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We’re Charged Up to Open New Doors to Our Albany, NY Headquarters

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We recently moved into our new office space in Albany and celebrated with colleagues and industry friends in conjunction with the NY-BEST Technology Consortium.  At our opening reception, we were so pleased to introduce our new and growing team at Key Capture Energy and reflect on what has been a very exciting year for storage…

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Orange & Rockland, Key Capture Energy To Develop New Pomona Battery Project

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PEARL RIVER, NY March 13, 2019 – Orange & Rockland (O&R) and Key Capture Energy (KCE) today announced that O&R has selected KCE, an Albany-­based, independent developer of utility-­scale battery storage projects, to plan, design, install and operate O&R’s new battery storage project in Pomona. The battery storage project is part of O&R’s Pomona Non-­Wires…

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Making the Rounds to Talk about Storage

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Our CEO Jeff Bishop has been busy making the rounds and sharing his perspectives about energy storage. He recently was invited to be a guest on This Week in Clean Tech, a weekly podcast hosted by David Hunt, with voices from the frontline discussing the biggest and most interesting news in cleantech, e-mobility, energy storage,…

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KCE NY 1 Breaks Ground on 20 MW

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Today we held a groundbreaking ceremony, representing the commencement of construction, for our KCE NY 1 project. We were so pleased to be joined by representatives from the Town of Stillwater, Mechanicville-Stillwater IDA, Congressman Tonko’s Office, NYSERDA, NY BEST, ACENY, Luther Forest Technology Campus, and Saratoga County Prosperity Partnership for this important milestone.  The KCE…

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Energy Storage Mandates Continue to Develop

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On May 23, New Jersey became the fifth state in the nation to set an energy storage mandate. Governor Murphy signed the Renewable Energy bill calling for the procurement of 600 MW of energy storage by 2021, with an increase to 2,000 MW of installed capacity by 2030. In addition to addressing energy storage, the…

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This Day in History: Thomas Edison Patents the Alkaline Battery

If Thomas Edison were to be resurrected into today’s world he would be in for quite a surprise. As one of the leaders of the electricity revolution, Edison patented the Alkaline Battery 112 years ago from today, on July 31, 1906. However, the modern landscape for battery technologies is a far cry from the period…

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