The Virginia company proposing to build a 100-megawatt battery energy storage facility on Mill Road presented its proposal to the Riverhead Planning Board Thursday — a presentation described by the town’s head planner as merely intended to educate the board and the public about battery energy storage in general rather than a typical discussion of a site plan application in front of the board for review.
Battery energy storage is not currently an allowed use under the town zoning code. In fact, the company’s site plan application for the 3.6-acre residentially zoned site on Mill Road has already been denied by the Building and Planning Administrator Jefferson Murphree for that reason.
However, the applicant, Riverhead Energy, a subsidiary of Hexagon Energy of Charlottesville, Virginia, has also filed an application to the Riverhead Zoning Board of Appeals seeking a special…
Battery energy storage system plan is presented to Planning Board, a move blasted by both Aguiar and Blass
