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Blue States Discover That “Green” Energy Storage is Playing with Fire—Literally
13 hours ago Charles Rotter
It’s another day, another green energy disaster in the making—this time featuring the very people who demand Net Zero, now backpedaling furiously to avoid living next to the technology that’s supposed to save the planet. Welcome to New York, where residents are suddenly realizing that lithium battery storage facilities are just a tad more dangerous than the windmills and solar panels they imagined would lead them to climate utopia.
Gov. Kathy Hochul’s ambitious plan to turn New York into a renewable energy powerhouse is colliding with reality as towns and cities push back against massive Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) facilities. These behemoth battery plants are necessary to store the sporadic energy generated by wind and solar—because, surprise, the sun doesn’t always shine, and the wind doesn’t always blow.
But here’s the catch: These lithium-ion storage facilities have a nasty little habit of catching fire, spewing toxic fumes, and being nearly impossible to extinguish. As Staten Island Borough President Vito Fossella put it,
“They are being placed literally right next door to people’s homes, and even next to a gas station”
“The city is playing with fire by allowing this type of reckless policy to continue”.
https://nypost.com/2025/02/03/us-news/ny-residents-rebel-against-battery-storage-plants-for-wind-solar-power-as-going-green-goes-south-playing-with-fire/In Duanesburg—where, hilariously, New York’s top energy bureaucrat Doreen Harris lives—the town voted to ban these facilities altogether, citing
“a threat to public health, safety, and welfare”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/02/04/blue-states-discover-that-green-energy-storage-is-playing-with-fire-literally/
