A small Columbia County town with no battery proposal on record has kept battery storage on hold while a committee drafts zoning from NYSERDA's model law.
Town of Stockport · Columbia County · Energy storage · Status: never-proposed (precautionary moratorium)
Stockport has no battery application on record. Its Battery Storage Zoning Law Committee has been drafting rules from NYSERDA's Model Battery Storage Facility Law and an Orange County ordinance, and the town has kept a moratorium in place to hold the line while it works: an original Local Law No. 1 of 2024 (twelve-month, June 2024) and, most recently, Local Law No. 1 of 2026, a three-month moratorium applying to all districts and all property. (Local Law 1 of 2026; Zoning Review — Battery Storage)
As with its neighbors, the law's scope is all BESS — not the "utility-scale" the statewide tracker lists.
Stockport is the clearest "rule-making, not project-blocking" case in the inventory: the documented activity is a committee adapting a state model law, with the moratorium simply preventing an application from landing before the rules exist. It shares the Columbia County template — definitions, SEQRA Type II finding, NYSERDA-model sourcing — with Livingston and Claverack. The case is worth watching mainly to see what the finished zoning permits, which is the part a moratorium defers rather than decides.