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WHITE HALL, MD — Regulators denied state financial incentives for a controversial battery energy storage project proposed for northern Harford County after determining it was not cost-effective for Maryland ratepayers.

Harford County officials have raised other concerns, including the project's proximity to Deer Creek, a tributary to the Susquehanna River. The facility would sit on approximately 71 acres.

The mostly forested site identified for the facility already hosts Baltimore Gas & Electric’s Conastone Substation, located in the northwestern corner of Harford County. A representative from Tenaska, the company developing the project, said that the facility would be located at least 600 feet from the waterway, and that most of the 70 acres would remain forested.

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However, the state's decision does not kill the proposed Oystercatcher Energy Storage System, which would be built along Norrisville Road in White Hall next to Baltimore Gas and Electric's Conastone Substation.