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A typical BESS storage container, in this case designed by Honeywell.
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State BESS Code Comment Period Ends This Week, as Local Governments Work on Codes

Beth Young
As a New York State task force wraps up the public comment process on a series of changes to the state's fire code in response to three Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) fires in the state in 2023, local governments on the East End are also hashing out the details of how BESS systems will be regulated here. Pictured Above: A typical BESS storage container, in this case designed by
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Councilwoman Kathee Burke-Gonzalez, Supervisor Peter Van Scoyoc, Deputy Supervisor Sylvia Overby, Christopher Thomas (AES Distributed Energy) and Councilman Jeffrey Bragman at the 2019 launch of the Accabonac Solar Farm at the site of the town's former brush dump.
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East Hampton Rolls Out Energy Roadmap

Beth Young
East Hampton Town is in the process of adopting a Renewable Energy Roadmap to continue its work toward reaching its goal for the past decade of freeing the town from the use of fossil fuels. In 2014, East Hampton set a goal to power the entire community’s electric consumption with renewable energy by 2020, and to have all of its other energy needs like heating and transportation met with renewable
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Southampton Town Seeks Applicants for Community Solar Lottery

Beth Young
Southampton Town's solar array atop the former North Sea Landfill is expected to be completed in early 2025, and the town is now seeking 500 residents to participate in its Community Solar program, which will use a portion of the power generated there to provide residents of modest means with a PSEG-Long Island electric bill statement credits of up to 10 percent of their bill over the next 20 years.
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East Hampton to Draft All Electric Law

Beth Young
Pictured Above: Rewiring America (rewiringamerica.org) is filled with information about all electric houses. East Hampton Town, which is ever-seeking to be at the forefront of the green energy movement, is drafting a new Local Law that would require all electric heating and cooling systems in all new construction and substantial renovations (more than 50 percent) beginning Jan. 1 of 2025. The New York State Legislature passed the All-Electric Buildings Act
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East Hampton Councilman David Lys, Southampton Councilman Tommy John Schiavoni, New York Governor Kathy Hochul, East Hampton Town Supervisor Kathee Burke-Gonzalez, East Hampton Councilwoman Cate Rogers and Southampton Councilman Michael Iasilli at the March 14 event.
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South Fork Wind Project Is Powered Up

Beth Young
Pictured Above: East Hampton Councilman David Lys, Southampton Councilman Tommy John Schiavoni, New York Governor Kathy Hochul, East Hampton Town Supervisor Kathee Burke-Gonzalez, East Hampton Councilwoman Cate Rogers and Southampton Councilman Michael Iasilli at the March 14 event. | photo courtesy New York Governor Kathy Hochul's office. Governor Kathy Hochul, alongside the United States Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland and other elected officials, announced the completion of the landmark
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Construction continued in February on South Fork Wind. |. Ørsted
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Sunrise & Empire Wind Win New State Contracts

Beth Young
Pictured Above: Construction continued in February on South Fork Wind. |. Ørsted New conditional contracts for the offshore wind farms Sunrise Wind and Empire Wind 1 have been accepted by the New York Energy Research & Development Authority (NYSERDA), Governor Kathy Hochul announced on Thursday. The new contracts replace contracts cancelled by the wind farms last year amidst rising construction costs. “I promised to make New York a place for the renewable energy
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Southampton Extends Battery Storage Moratorium

Beth Young
Pictured Above: The site plan for the proposed Canal BESS project. The Southampton Town Board unanimously approved a six-month extension to its moratorium on Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) at its meeting Thursday, Feb. 15. The board also agreed to hire consultants VHB, Inc. to help them develop new code for siting and safety of BESS facilities based on resident concerns and the recently released recommendations of a New York State BESS
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The East Hampton BESS facility, a collaboration between National Grid and NextEra Energy, was the site of a fire in May of 2023.
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State Battery Fire Group Issues Code Recommendations as Southampton Considers Moratorium Extension

Beth Young
As moratoriums on new Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) continue in Southold and Southampton towns this winter, a state task force convened last summer to investigate three BESS fires in New York has released a draft of 15 proposed fire code changes to help prevent and mitigate fires. The report, released Feb. 6, comes as the Southampton Town Board is considering a six-month extension of a moratorium on consideration of
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Offshore Wind Consolidation Continues with New NYSERDA Solicitation

Beth Young
Pictured Above: The South Fork Wind Farm is now sending power from six turbines to the Long Island grid. |. Ørsted photo As the South Fork Wind Farm announced in mid-January that half of its 12 wind turbines are installed and sending power to the East End grid, offshore wind developers unveiled their updated plans as part of a new solicitation from the New York State Energy Research & Development
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Power Begins to Flow From South Fork Wind

Beth Young
Pictured Above: The first offshore wind turbine to send power to Long Island (foreground), with the third turbine being installed. In total, 12 turbines at the South Fork Wind Farm are slated to provide enough power for 70,000 Long Island homes. |. Beth Young photos Dotting the horizon like large vertical liferafts emerging from the fog, a grid of 12 yellow monopoles that will become the foundations for the South
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Commission Finds LIPA “Public Power” Plan Would Save Ratepayers Half A Billion Dollars Over Ten Years

Beth Young
Allowing the Long Island Power Authority to run its own electric grid without paying tens of millions of dollars annually "to a private, for-profit utility will save ratepayers at least half a billion dollars over ten years, improve efficiency and accountability and increase local control and community input," according to the final report of the New York State Legislative Commission on the Future of the Long Island Power Authority The
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