By adamg - Thu, 10/10/2024 - 11:20am

The co-founder of Flatiron Energy of Boulder, CO met with Brighton residents yesterday to talk at length about the company's proposal for a two-story, 62,000-square foot building filled with lithium-ion batteries on Electric Avenue - except for the one thing most of them wanted to hear more about: How the company would protect them from the risk of a fire at a large electric facility as close as 40 feet to some residents' property. Read more.

By adamg - Wed, 10/09/2024 - 3:01pm

The City Council agreed today to look into the environmental and safety issues related to plans for at least two industrial-sized electricity-storage plants, one on the aptly named Electric Avenue in Brighton, the other on a wooded hill behind the Stop & Shop mall on American Legion Highway on the Roslindale/Hyde Park meet that was most recently in the news for being the summer home of Moodini the Steer. Read more.

Rendering of proposed battery building in Brighton
By adamg - Sun, 09/08/2024 - 12:44pm

A Boulder, CO company last week filed plans for the two-story, 50-foot-tall big battery building it's proposing for, really, the best street in all of Boston for something like that: Electric Avenue in Brighton. Read more.

By adamg - Tue, 06/11/2024 - 9:35am

A Colorado company that builds industrial-sized battery systems for use in electrical grids says it will soon file plans to build a two-story "battery energy storage system" at 35 Electric Ave. in Brighton. Read more.