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Commissioners press staff on battery-storage language and March's Point jurisdiction in climate update
Summary
Anacortes planning commissioners pressed staff to clarify climate element language on battery storage and to explain how March's Point refinery emissions are treated in the Comprehensive Plan update at the May 14 meeting.
The Anacortes Planning Commission revisited draft Climate and Environment & Conservation element language at its May 14 meeting, focusing on how the draft treats energy infrastructure, battery storage and the city's connection to county-jurisdiction industrial sites such as March's Point.
Commissioners said the topic matters because climate and energy language in the Comprehensive Plan shapes where and how the city will encourage or regulate renewable energy generation, distributed resources and battery energy storage systems (BESS), and because some major industrial facilities that affect Anacortes (March's Point refineries) sit in the Skagit County urban growth area and raise questions about which jurisdiction addresses emissions and siting.
Libby Grange and staff led the discussion and relayed advice from the Washington State Department of Commerce that March's Point emissions were not included in…
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