TOWN OF GREIG, New York (WWNY) – The Greig Town Board unanimously passed a moratorium Wednesday night banning commercial renewable energy and energy storage systems for a year.

The decision came during a packed town hall meeting focused on a proposition the town board received in 2023 to build a battery energy storage system, or BESS.

The company proposing the project is EIP Storage of North Carolina, which describes itself online as a developer with best-in-class projects.

EIP wants to build on 20 acres along Brantingham Road, a little more than a mile outside of the Adirondack Park, keeping it out of range of the park’s strict land development rules.

One resident expressed concern about the project’s impact on the region’s natural beauty and questioned the company’s transparency.

“What other projects do they have? What’s the relationships with the towns? What are the towns seeing from a tax standpoint? What’s actually been paid? What are the issues, you know? There’s a lot of stuff out there, and finding out where their projects are is almost next to impossible with the way they label them and what they do,” said Bill Cartier, a concerned resident.

Town Supervisor Bob Johnson said the moratorium gives the board time to discuss a plan focusing on zoning laws and how projects like this can or cannot fit in.

“That fit in perfectly with the fact that we are finally developing a comprehensive plan for the town and we’ll be done come early spring, so it’s perfect timing for us to get the zoning law updated to reflect what the people’s vision is for the town of Greig in the future,” Johnson said.

Another resident argued the town needed to rally together to reach this point with a town moratorium.

“I think it has to come from all of us who are against this to continue. I will say continue because some of you have done a tremendous amount of work and that’s really what it comes down to,” said Laurie Benzing, a concerned resident.

EIP Storage did not respond to a request for comment.

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