GUILDERLAND — Two weeks after it imposed a four-month moratorium on large-scale battery energy storage systems, the Guilderland Town Board was told that an exemption it wrote into the law is broad enough to still allow for commercial-sized energy-storage facilities in town.
At issue is the 600-kilowatt-hour threshold that separates the systems the town will not review for the next four months from the larger ones it will.
Local Law 1 of 2026 bars the town from accepting, processing or approving any application for a battery energy storage system, or BESS, with an aggregate capacity greater than 600 kilowatt-hours…