A Columbia County town that fielded informal developer inquiries but no formal application has kept battery storage under a moratorium while it writes regulations.
Town of Claverack · Columbia County · Energy storage · Status: never-proposed (precautionary moratorium)
No battery storage project has formally been proposed in Claverack; local reporting noted only that two unnamed companies had inquired. The town has kept a moratorium in place — a three-month measure passed in December 2025, which the board planned to extend — while it writes regulations, following an earlier 12-month moratorium in 2024. Town Attorney Robert Fitzsimmons said the town wants to "come up with good regulations for them before they are built." (The Daily Gazette)
come up with good regulations for them before they are built
Claverack is the same precautionary posture as Livingston and Stockport — regulate before anyone builds — but it is the least documented of the three: the load-bearing facts here come from a single local-news article, and the current law's exact text, scope, and dates still need to be pulled from the town record. That gap is itself the reason the case carries only medium confidence and an open verification task, rather than being treated as settled.