Battery storage. Energy developers, many backed by private equity, are running the old fossil fuel playbook — and it is costing clean energy the allies it needs most: communities like mine. In March, the same meeting came to Snoqualmie, where residents filed into a developer’s open house on a battery storage facility proposed just outside city limits. AdvertisingIn 2024, King County passed an ordinance allowing battery storage on nearly 97% of unincorporated land. The residents filling council chambers aren’t obstacles to the clean energy future — they’re the people it’s supposed to be for.