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Brooklyn board hears city, FDNY and state on community battery storage safety, siting and inspections
Summary
City and state officials told Brooklyn Borough board members how battery energy storage systems are approved, inspected and responded to by FDNY and DOB, while community leaders pressed for clearer flood-zone, inspection and liability information.
City and state energy and safety officials briefed the Brooklyn Borough Board on Nov. 26 about the growing use of community-scale battery energy storage systems (ESS), outlining permitting, technical standards and emergency response while responding to neighborhood concerns about flood risk, inspections and local transparency.
Julia Casagrande, deputy director of clean energy at the New York City Mayor’s Office of Climate and Environmental Justice, said energy storage lets the grid “take electricity from a time when there is not high demand and then dispatch it when there is high demand,” and argued the technology can improve reliability and reduce costly peak power use. She told the board the city’s policy target had been 500 megawatts of storage by 2025 and that state targets aim for 6,000 megawatts by 2030. The city currently offers a 30% property tax abatement for energy storage systems through 2035.
FDNY Chief of Fire Prevention Tom Correo described the multiagency approval pathway and device testing standards that…
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