Patrick Robbins

We could run out of food in three years.

So we're going to stop serving now.

You know, that's another way of thinking about it.

And so we are excited to see that more and more legislators at the city and state level are speaking out about this.

Council member Sandy Nurse has a resolution in the city council, Resolution 422, that calls on the Public Service Commission to act.

The comment period for this particular docket with the commission has closed.

That comment period closed on May 4th.

So it really is in the hands of the Public Service Commission now, you know, whether they're going to bake in this terrible precedent for storage across the state or if they're going to side with utility customers and make Con Edison walk this back.

Yeah.

I mean, I'll, I'll just say this isn't, you know, this isn't really an area of, you know, an expertise for me.

I haven't really worked on this much, but I will say that, um, there's exciting things happening with, you know, agrivoltaics in upstate New York, figuring out ways to productively pair, um, you know, growing different kinds of crops and sort of accounting for like a shady crop, almost like it can sit under something or

Yeah, I mean, another way of doing it would be, like, if there's land that's kind of not really good for anything else, you know, this can be a good source of income for, you know, land that would otherwise not be productive.

I don't think that... I don't think that...

Advocates in New York are encouraging construction on productive farmland.

That's a straw man that I have seen sometimes here in New York State, and at least not in New York.

Nobody's calling for that.

Not really.

The other thing that I'll say on the kind of nimby tip with regard to batteries, that's something I'm a little bit more familiar with.

You know, there is an awful lot of fear-mongering about battery storage.

I was at a...