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Syracuse hears public support for both BESS projects and a six-month moratorium as city plans review
Summary
At a public hearing, city staff described a proposed six-month moratorium on siting battery energy storage systems while multiple residents, university students and experts urged both cautious regulation and support for storage that would help integrate renewables amid local growth.
Syracuse City held a public hearing on a proposed six-month moratorium on siting battery energy storage systems (BESS) as city staff said the pause would allow agencies to study safety, siting and code changes and residents offered mostly supportive testimony.
Jake Dishaw, deputy commissioner of code enforcement, told the hearing the moratorium would give “code enforcement, zoning, fire prevention, planning and sustainability, DPW, and engineering time to assess the benefits and also the public concerns associated with battery energy storage facilities and their placements within the city,” and that a city task force would “review and propose local code amendments to address all public safety and other concerns.”
The moratorium proposal was…
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