The long legislative road to improving energy efficiency in north Ocean City got a little shorter this week.In a relatively uneventful hearing Monday, City Council members approved a request from Delmarva Power for a land swap that would pave the way for a battery energy storage system — known as a BESS — on 100th Street.Council members last month approved conditional use permits to build the innovative power provision system on one of two lots behind the Worcester County Public Library. Monday’s approval allows power company officials to swap a lot they own with an identical, adjacent city-owned lot to build the system on the latter.
Members of the planning commission recently gave a favorable recommendation to the swap, mainly because…
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