35 Electric Avenue | Brighton

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35 Electric Avenue​


“Flatiron Energy LLC, doing business as (d/b/a) Lite Brite Storage LLC (the “Proponent”), is proposing to construct a new two-storied battery energy storage facility at 35 Electric Avenue in the Brighton neighborhood of Boston. The Project will contain approximately 62,000 square feet of Gross Floor Area in a single two-storied building. Each level of the building will contain five approximately 5,000 SF battery energy storage rooms, an exterior equipment platform, an elevator and three egress stairs with roof access. Additionally, at the ground level, there will be an approximately 1,550 SF employee area with the main entrance, a fire pump room, a small break room and bathrooms for maintenance employees.”

https://www.bostonplans.org/projects/development-projects/35-electric-avenue

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https://www.universalhub.com/2024/company-charges-forward-large-scale-power-storage
 
It’s the right thing to do and located adjacent to a substation. The DBA name makes me laugh. Someone on the team grew up in the 1980s.
 
I'm curious to see how much local push back this gets. Basically everything about this project is great: increases grid reliability, cleans up the industrial lots in poor shape, adds a significant amount of green space and permeable surfaces, fixes narrow sidewalks, and should reduce traffic. The only sticking points I think anyone will have will likely be the height (not much more than neighboring triple-deckers) and it being "too imposing" for the neighborhood. The reception here could be a harbinger of what might happen to other battery storage facilities in less industrial contexts.
 
The initial IAG and public presentations occurred earlier this week. Fire safety concerns were echoed by about a dozen people, mostly abutters. Basically everyone else was highly supportive of the project and all the improvements that could come on the site. City Council is planning a hearing about battery storage projects in general (led by Allston/Brighton's Liz Breadon), which seems to suggest the desire to preempt future safety concerns. How this project plays out will likely have a major impact on future battery storage projects in the city.

https://www.universalhub.com/2024/residents-near-proposed-brighton-battery-plant
https://www.universalhub.com/2024/councilors-look-giant-battery-storage-systems
 
BeansTheCat said:
The initial IAG and public presentations occurred earlier this week. Fire safety concerns were echoed by about a dozen people, mostly abutters. Basically everyone else was highly supportive of the project and all the improvements that could come on the site. City Council is planning a hearing about battery storage projects in general (led by Allston/Brighton's Liz Breadon), which seems to suggest the desire to preempt future safety concerns. How this project plays out will likely have a major impact on future battery storage projects in the city.

https://www.universalhub.com/2024/residents-near-proposed-brighton-battery-plant
https://www.universalhub.com/2024/councilors-look-giant-battery-storage-systems
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Don't want to be too sanguine about a project that hasn't broken ground yet, but this is a nice test of what could be a new class of infill that manages to both be critical infrastructure, and pretty quick to go in (not to mention some of the nice architectural opportunities, as shown in the renders). For those that hem and haw about traffic, parking, overburdened resources like schools (all of which are BS arguments) it would be great to have some industrial parking lots fitted with battery arrays for grid resilience. None are going to have as good an address as this though.
 
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