Equinor Fights NIMBY Feelings in New York Battery Storage Project

The Not in My Back Yard (NIMBY) movement has targeted nuclear power plants, high voltage transmission lines, windmills and solar farms, demanding that builders just put them somewhere else. Now Equinor, the Norwegian energy company, wants to install New York’s largest grid battery storage facility in middle-class Mahopac, in Putnam County, about forty miles north of New York City. This proposed site is right next to posher Somers in Westchester County, on property owned by— as described by the local paper — members of two politically…