(22 Sep 2025)
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Blasdell, New York – 9 September 2025
1. Fly through over residential neighbourhood to large battery energy storage system ++MUTE++
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Chris Linsmayer, Key Capture Energy, Public Affairs
“Yeah, so we are here at Key Capture Energy’s New York 6 facility just outside of Buffalo. This is a battery energy storage system. And so what you see behind me that look like shipping containers are actually full of lithium ion batteries. And these systems store energy during periods of low demand and then they will send the energy back onto the grid when demand increases.”
3. Drone zooms out of large battery energy storage system ++MUTE++
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Chris Linsmayer, Key Capture Energy, Public Affairs
“One of the advantages of battery energy storage systems like this is that they are really energy dense so this is only about two and a half acres. It’s largely invisible to the naked eye.”
5. Kyle Hull, Key Capture Energy Senior Operations Manager opens gate in fence to enter large battery energy storage system
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Chris Linsmayer, Key Capture Energy, Public Affairs
“So the facility you see behind us is actually the state’s largest right now, but in the coming years, there’s going to be larger facilities all across this state.”
7. Chris Linsmayer, talking to a colleague at one of the battery energy storage systems
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Chris Linsmayer, Key Capture Energy, Public Affairs
“We’re storing energy in the middle of the day or at night and then dispatching that energy in the evening when everyone returns home, they turn their appliances on, especially in the summer, air conditioning, things like that.”
9. Various tracking shots through the grounds of the battery energy storage system
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Chris Linsmayer, Key Capture Energy, Public Affairs
“California and Texas right now are the the two leading states, but if you look beyond them, you, know, including in New York, including New England, these are coming in every market across the country and again, it’s really about meeting this growing electricity demand and making sure that we can remain competitive and grow our economy.”
11. Drone low level fly through shows battery facility and transformer substation that connects to the electric grid ++MUTE++
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Chris Linsmayer, Key Capture Energy, Public Affairs
“If you look at the shipping containers behind me there are hundreds thousands of cells in each one of them they are all monitored in real time multiple data points are being taken every second and so if something isn’t operating correctly we can remotely turn off either a small portion, an entire container or the entire system to make sure that everybody remains safe.”
13. Drone zooms out of the battery campus and neighbourhood
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Chris Linsmayer, Key Capture Energy, Public Affairs
“You may see a facility like this in your neighbourhood and it’s safe. But these facilities, you know, we are outside of Buffalo. They are coming all across New York and will be located near population centres as needed. So obviously, you can think of the Hudson Valley and Long Island and places like that, that these facilities will be coming online in the years ahead.”
15. Top view of large battery energy storage system
16. SOUNDBITE (English) George Williams, local resident
17. Drone flies over the battery arrangements ++MUTE++
18. SOUNDBITE (English) George Williams, Resident
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