Town of Oyster Bay sets public hearing to extend battery moratorium

The Town of Oyster Bay scheduled a public hearing for July 15 to extend its moratorium on battery energy storage systems.

The board voted to schedule the hearing at its meeting on Tuesday, June 24. The town currently has a ban on battery energy storage systems until the end of October. The new moratorium would be tacked on to the end of the current one and extend that ban through April 2026.