COMFORT — Company officials are canceling plans to develop a battery-storage center on Flat Rock Creek Road that met with local opposition.
In a letter Tuesday, Jan. 27, to the Boerne Star, an East Point Energy official spelled out the firm's decision to drop plans for constructing the facility.
"Due to shifting strategic priorities, East Point Energy's development of the Flat Rock Energy Center will no longer be pursued at this time," wrote Catherine Chapman, East Point Energy manager of community engagement.
"We'd like to thank the local community for their collaboration, and look forward to strengthening grid reliability throughout Texas,” Chapman added.
East Point was one of two firms many residents fought to halt development of battery-energy storage systems along the road.
Texas State Rep. for District 19 Ellen Troxclair, R-Lakeway, filed several bills in the 2025 legislative session in an attempt to halt building the potentially dangerous energy facilities on the outskirts of Comfort. A year earlier, she had penned a letter of objection to the East Point Energy CEO in Virginia.
East Point Energy was planning to build a 250 megawatt battery facility on 10 acres on Flat Rock Creek Road, near the Lower Colorado River Authority power substation.
"East Point is officially calling off their plans for a BESS facility in Comfort, due to 'shifting strategic priorities,'" Troxclair posted on Facebook.
"This was a team effort, led by a united community," Troxclair wrote. "We consistently demonstrated to anyone who would listen, that this small, rural town, with a volunteer fire department, limited water and no egress (on Flat Rock Creek Road), was an unsafe location for large-scale battery storage."
She said the news is "a sign of hope for similar projects that should be reconsidered."
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