Environment
Adoption of Battery Energy Storage code is on Riverhead Town Board’s agenda Tuesday
The Riverhead Town Board will take up resolutions tomorrow to issue a determination of non significance and adopt a code to allow battery energy storage systems in five zoning districts in the town.
Government
Solar power company pitches three-megawatt facility at town’s landfill
Riverhead Town's former landfill site on Youngs Avenue in Calverton is again being eyed for a possible solar energy facility.
Government
Planning board grants final approval to Calverton’s fifth large solar power facility
The addition of Calverton Solar Center will bring the total approved solar energy production capacity in Calverton to 88 megawatts, enough to power more than 14,000 homes.
News
State begins review of 290-acre 36 MW solar power facility proposed for Calverton
A 36 MW solar power generation facility on 290 acres of leased vacant land in Calverton is now under review by the a facility siting board of the State Department of Public Service, which has sole jurisdiction over the application. But the Town of Riverhead may reopen environmental review of a previously approved 20 MW facility proposed by the same company so that the impacts of both facilities may be examined.
News
Solar power company makes surprise offer to buy EPCAL site
“We are here to bid for the property. We are prepared to pay substantially more money for the property." The largest private solar power generation company in the U.S. says it wants to buy the town's 1,600-plus acres at the Calverton Enterprise Park to build a massive solar facility.
Suffolk Closeup
Suffolk Closeup: Enemies of renewable energy seek to protect their own profits
The electric utilities industry and their fossil-fuel backers are doing everything they can to stop the home solar energy insurgence because it cuts into their profits.