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The committee that has been working on a crafting a strategy for how Southampton Town should approach battery energy storage systems, or BESS facilities, said that the town could cap the size of such systems at 5 megawatts and bar them from residential areas to address concerns by some about safety, while still allowing a number of the facilities to be constructed. MICHAEL WRIGHT
The BESS facility at the Cove Hollow power substation in East Hampton.
Janice Scherer and Seth Race outlined the recommendations for new BESS systems in Southampton Town last week, including barring them from residential areas, capping the size of standalone BESS facilities at 5 megawatts and requiring that they be on properties of at least 1 acre in industrial zones and at least 300 feet from a residential property. MICHAEL WRIGHT
Michael Wright on Nov 26, 2024