Town of Ulster Supervisor James Quigley III is a key figure in the fate of the application by Terra-Gen to establish a 250-megawatt-capacity battery energy storage system (BESS) at the site of the former Coleman High School on Hurley Avenue in Ulster.

With the support of the other members of Ulster’s town board, Quigley will be negotiating with a developer whose most visible United States holding is the ownership and operation of seven BESS projects throughout California—enough to power 1.4 million homes for approximately four hours. According to its website, Terra-Gen is owned by an Abu Dhabi “clean energy powerhouse” called Masdar and by Igneo Infrastructure Partners, an investment manager with $19.5 billion in direct infrastructure assets. Quigley will be sitting across the table from

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