Robert Holden is worried about one of New York City's five boroughs going up in flames.
"It makes absolutely zero sense why, now, these facilities are being sited practically in people's backyards, and next to gas stations, all over Staten Island," says the city councillor.
"Simply put, it is not just a bad policy, but a dangerous one, and the city is literally playing with fire by allowing this to happen."
Holden is talking about proposals to build more battery energy storage system (Bess) centres - large-scale power storage sites based on the same lithium-ion batteries that are used in laptops and electric cars.
The batteries are stored, thousands together, in large metal boxes.
