The Town of Southold extended a moratorium on the construction of Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) on the North Fork to give officials time to finalize regulation of the facilities.
The Southold Town Board unanimously voted on April 21 in favor of extending the BESS moratorium for another year following a public hearing. The decision was made to give the town’s Battery Energy Task Force and town board to follow New York State guidance on setting BESS policies to help mitigate the potential for harder-to-extinguish fires that can break out at such facilities.
