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Board raises safety and siting concerns for large battery storage as town rewrites solar law
Summary
Members discussed mobile‑home sized battery storage systems, said the town plans to extract batteries from the solar law into a standalone Battery Energy Storage System code, and urged setback, evacuation and fire‑response planning after citing fires elsewhere.
Members of the Grand Island Conservation Advisory Board on March 26 discussed growing local concern about large battery energy storage systems and the town’s plan to treat battery rules separately from the solar law.
Committee member (S3) described the units as "large scale battery storage units that are the size of, like, a mobile home," and said the board cannot simply declare such facilities off‑limits because the project is under municipal jurisdiction and…
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