{"id":365127,"date":"2025-02-05T16:40:42","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T15:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=365127"},"modified":"2025-02-05T16:40:44","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T15:40:44","slug":"blue-states-discover-that-green-energy-storage-is-playing-with-fire-literally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=365127","title":{"rendered":"Blue States Discover That \u201cGreen\u201d Energy Storage is Playing with Fire\u2014Literally"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Charles Rotter<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s another day, another green energy disaster in the making\u2014this time featuring the very people who demand Net Zero, now backpedaling furiously to avoid living next to the technology that\u2019s supposed to save the planet. Welcome to New York, where residents are suddenly realizing that lithium battery storage facilities are just a\u00a0tad<\/em>\u00a0more dangerous than the windmills and solar panels, they imagined would lead them to climate utopia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gov. Kathy Hochul\u2019s 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\u2014because, surprise, the sun doesn\u2019t always shine, and the wind doesn\u2019t always blow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But here\u2019s 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,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThey are being placed literally right next door to people\u2019s homes, and even next to a gas station\u201d

\u201cThe city is playing with fire by allowing this type of reckless policy to continue\u201d\u200b.

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\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

In Duanesburg\u2014where, hilariously, New York\u2019s top energy bureaucrat Doreen Harris<\/a> lives\u2014the town voted to ban these facilities altogether, citing<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201ca threat to public health, safety, and welfare\u201d<\/em>\u200b<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

It seems that even the climate policy elite don\u2019t want to live next to their own grand ideas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, let\u2019s talk about irony. Remember the Indian Point nuclear plant? It was shut down in 2020 because environmentalists claimed it was a safety risk. Fast forward to 2025, and the same activists are now screaming about the dangers of the giant lithium battery facility set to replace it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cIndian Point was the safest thing since apple pie,\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

said Roland Ciafone, a former maintenance supervisor at the plant\u200b. Who could\u2019ve guessed that a nuclear plant designed with multiple safety redundancies might be safer than a lithium-ion fire trap?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The pushback in New York isn\u2019t just some isolated NIMBYism. A similar lithium battery storage plant in Monterey County, California,<\/a> recently erupted in flames, leading to the evacuation of 1,500 residents. Scientists later discovered high concentrations of heavy metals in the soil around the site. Glenn Church, a Monterey County official, described the fire as \u201cthe Three Mile Island event for this industry\u201d<\/em>\u200b. In other words, the green energy revolution is starting to resemble a bad rerun of history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Church,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThis technology is ahead of government\u2019s ability to regulate it and industry\u2019s ability to control it\u201d<\/em>\u200b.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Translation: We are guinea pigs in an experiment where nobody actually knows what they\u2019re doing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet, despite mounting evidence of the dangers, New York continues pushing its 2019 Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act, which aims to cut emissions by 40% by 2030 and achieve 100% \u201czero-carbon\u201d electricity by 2040\u200b. But without stable nuclear power and with communities rejecting battery storage, it\u2019s unclear how exactly this miracle is supposed to happen. Magic, perhaps?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For years, environmentalists have insisted that wind and solar\u2014propped up by giant lithium-ion batteries\u2014are the only way forward. Now, as these battery facilities start going up in smoke (literally), even the most die-hard climate warriors are having second thoughts. When climate policy meets cold, hard reality, the results are often spectacularly disastrous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New York residents who once chanted for Green New Deal policies are quickly learning that \u201cgoing green\u201d<\/em> comes with a very real, very flammable downside. The only question left is: How many more battery fires will it take before policymakers admit that their grand plan is a spectacular failure?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It\u2019s another day, another green energy disaster in the making\u2014this time featuring the very people who demand Net Zero, now backpedaling furiously to avoid living next to the technology that\u2019s supposed to save the planet. Welcome to New York, where residents are suddenly realizing that lithium battery storage facilities are just a\u00a0tad\u00a0more dangerous than the windmills and solar panels, they imagined would lead them to climate utopia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":365130,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691833058,691833057,691820168,691818849,691833059,691818154,691818867],"class_list":{"0":"post-365127","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-battery-energy-storage-system-bess","9":"tag-climate-utopia","10":"tag-green-energy-disaster","11":"tag-green-new-deal","12":"tag-lithium-ion-storage-facilities","13":"tag-net-zero","14":"tag-new-york","16":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/0bb6a0b1a5317fe7d78169f6ca5d6a1c4.jpeg?fit=1242%2C828&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1wZ9","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":419176,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=419176","url_meta":{"origin":365127,"position":0},"title":"The Unreported Story of Grid Scale Battery Fires","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"30\/12\/2025","format":false,"excerpt":"The geniuses who are planning New York\u2019s energy future think that they can make intermittent wind and solar generators work to power the electrical grid by the simple device of providing some battery storage. 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