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Subject Battery energy storage facilities.
Relating To relating to energy.
Title An act to add Chapter 14 (commencing with Section 66350) to Division 1 of Title 7 of the Government Code, and to amend Section 25545 of the Public Resources Code, relating to energy, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately.
Last Action Dt 2025-01-23
State Introduced
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2026-02-02     From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.
2026-01-31     Died pursuant to Art. IV, Sec. 10(c) of the Constitution.
2025-04-02     In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
2025-03-10     Referred to Coms. on U. & E., NAT. RES. and L. GOV.
2025-01-24     From printer. May be heard in committee February 23.
2025-01-23     Read first time. To print.
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Introduced     2025-01-23
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Existing law, until June 30, 2029, authorizes a person proposing an eligible facility, including an energy storage system capable of storing 200 megawatthours or more of energy, to submit an application for certification with the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission of the site and related facility. Existing law specifies that the issuance by the commission of the certificate is in lieu of any permit, certificate, or similar document required by any state, local, or regional agency, or federal agency to the extent permitted by federal law, except as provided. Existing law establishes the procedures by which the commission is to review the application.

This bill would specify that energy storage systems do not include battery energy storage systems for the above-described purposes. The bill would require the commission to deny applications for a battery energy storage system that are pending as of the effective date of the bill.

Existing law, the Planning and Zoning Law, sets forth various requirements relating to the review of development project permit applications and the issuance of development permits for specified classes of development projects.

This bill would prohibit the authorization of a development project that includes a battery energy storage system capable of storing 200 megawatthours or more of energy if the development project is located within 3,200 feet of a sensitive receptor or is located on an environmentally sensitive site, as specified.

This bill would include findings that changes proposed by this bill address a matter of statewide concern rather than a municipal affair and, therefore, apply to all cities, including charter cities.

This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.