Syracuse, N. Y. – In recent months, more than a dozen companies have called Salina town officials with similar proposals: Let us install an energy storage system in your town.
“We got calls from 14 companies,” said Salina planning director Mark Lafaver. “They want to litter them like popcorn.”
The rush to build battery storage systems across Upstate New York is a part of the state’s clean energy plan. The effort is backed over the next two decades by $2 billion in taxpayer incentives for the companies that run them…