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Residents and clean-energy advocates urge Babylon board to update zoning, not extend moratorium on battery storage
Summary
At a Town of Babylon public hearing, advocates and residents urged the board not to extend a moratorium on battery energy storage systems and to update local zoning to allow properly sited facilities, arguing batteries are key to replacing fossil-fuel peaker plants and stabilizing the grid. The board closed the hearing and reserved its decision.
At a public hearing on a proposed local law, advocates and residents urged the Town of Babylon board to stop extending a moratorium on battery energy storage systems and to move quickly to update zoning to permit carefully sited projects.
Jordan Christiansen, representing Citizens Campaign for the Environment, told the board it was not choosing “between a single best facility and nothing,” but between “battery energy storage or solar or wind or all 3 versus what we have right now, which is fossil fuels.” Christiansen urged the town to…
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