Big battery farms encounter resistance across western Washington

By: Tom Banse

Outlets: Washington State Standard

Published: June 18, 2026

Words: 1,428

Last Updated: 3 weeks, 1 day ago

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Community opposition to big battery farms is spreading across western Washington just as the technology takes on growing importance for the state’s clean energy transition and to stabilize the electric grid.

A multiplying number of cities and counties have enacted moratoriums on permitting for new utility-scale battery storage systems over the past year. Over a similar timeframe, project developers withdrew around a dozen early-stage battery storage proposals from the interconnection queue of Puget Sound Energy, …

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