My friend, Heinrich Boenig, ended his letter last week about the proposed battery storage facility in Harper with a very good question that I would like to answer.

His question was “If nobody is complaining (about electricity outages), why is Peregrine trying to solve a problem that doesn’t exist?”

Peregrine doesn’t care about electricity outages in the Harper area, they care about profit.

Their website states the company’s mission: “Peregrine’s utility scale energy storage solutions and renewable generation resources focus on areas with strong renewables targets and reliability shortfalls.”

What that actually says is that Peregrine focuses on areas that are not incorporated and therefore don’t have the main impediment to their battery storage facilities: laws or city ordinances that would impede the building of a battery storage facility.

Peregrine has identified a segment of the economy that has huge profit potential, and their only concern is that profit potential.

At the meeting in Harper several months ago, company representatives said, at that time, they did not have a battery storage facility operating anywhere in the U.S. Any and all facilities under their control were in the development stage. They don’t have a track record for their company to use for safety statistics.

As many have stated, this battery storage facility would be located a short distance from the Harper Independent School District campus.

Surely someone has started a “Go Fund Me” account to raise funds to sue Peregrine Energy over the dangers to the school associated with the location of this project.

I am sure there are many residents like myself who are willing to help fund a lawsuit to stop this project. Hopefully someone has stepped up and started the wheels turning.

Art Hansen Harper

This morning, I picked up my mail from the post office and had received a card from the City of Fredericksburg notifying me that the city is currently in Stage 4 Water Restrictions.

Upon exiting the post office, I gazed across the street to the enormous development being constructed at the “Y” which will contain stores, restaurants, possibly a hotel and more. One imagines that a development of this size will use millions of gallons of water annually.

It reminds me of the Seinfeld episode where Kramer is test driving a new car for his friend, Jerry. Kramer and the salesman decide to see how far they can drive the car before running out of gas.

Jeff Boyd

Fredericksburg