Posted on 02/04/2025 9:03:54 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Gov. Kathy Hochul’s plans for the Empire State to go green are going south as local communities refuse to build massive battery plants that would store wind and solar energy.
One upstate town where a top state official leading the state’s anti-fossil fuel push just voted to ban construction of the plants — and one New York City politician has already called to pause any new sites for the facilities.
“We called for — and still support — a moratorium on these [Battery Energy Storage System] facilities almost two years ago,” said Vito Fossella, borough president of Staten Island, where more than a dozen of the facilities are planned.
“They are being placed literally right next door to people’s homes, and even next to a gas station,” Fosella said. “The city is playing with fire by allowing this type of reckless policy to continue.”
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Somebody didn’t get in on the grift.
Solar and wind for the grid are a very bad idea, even with battery storage. And calling it good for the environment is about as big a lie as calling Stacey Abrams anemic.
HAHAHA
Might help the people fighting the battery fire in Moss Landing, Santa Cruz County, California
NY’ers are stupid. The majority of sheeple are bought and paid for by government, which runs everything in NY State.
Andrew Cuomo led the shut down of Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant, which closed 3 years ago. It produced power for under 3 cents per KWH, and was 50% of downstate NY baseload power. Whereas NY City residents are now paying 30 cents per KWH
Now NY City is almost totally reliant on electricity from natural gas - which has made a joke of NY’s ridiculous “anti-global warming” efforts
“..Andrew Cuomo led the shut down of Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant, which closed 3 years ago. It produced power for under 3 cents per KWH, and was 50% of downstate NY baseload power. Whereas NY City residents are now paying 30 cents per KWH...”
Typical lib insanity. These moronic clowns think they’re smarter, brighter, better than anyone else on the face o the planet and their shit down’t stink, especially the New Yawker varieties. They think they’re the utlimate gift to the human race. The reality is they’re dumber than a box of rocks with apologies going out to the rocks. They belong no where near the levers of govt power, or any kind of power for that matter. Most would qualitfy as mental institution inmates. NY and CA are classic examples of of their stupidity.... They can ALL go pound sand up their commie arses....
New York has a grand net zero plan that is based on technology that does not now exist and is not on the horizon. Besides nonexistent battery farms, the state will depend on something they label as DEFR, dispatchable emission free resources, which have yet to be invented.
Well there has been more than one battery facility burning in California. They burn for day or weeks once they get going. And now we find out that the chemicals are landing on all of the farmland. So the food that comes from their now will be loaded with chemicals. Also so many chemicals and plastics from the forest fires are landing on the land. They will be in the crops.
Not in Staten Island or Long Island east of Queens.
Battery Energy Storage System
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B-ESS for short
Careful planning is no substitute for wishful thinking
This is just too funny!
Upstate is almost .17 a Kwh
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