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Assembly committee advances battery-safety bill after citing Moss Landing fire
Summary
SB 283, the Clean Energy Safety Act of 2025, would require fire-agency consultation, inspections, NFPA-based standards, and prohibit indoor combustible-site battery storage; the Assembly Utilities and Energy Committee passed the bill as amended to Local Government.
The Assembly Committee on Utilities and Energy on Oct. 26 advanced SB 283, authored by Senator Laird, to the Local Government Committee. The bill — described by the author as the Clean Energy Safety Act of 2025 — would require standards, fire-department consultation and inspections, and prohibit the siting of utility-scale battery storage inside indoor combustible facilities.
Sen. Laird opened by describing the 2025 Moss Landing battery-storage fire, saying the blaze “burned for several days,” prompted evacuations, closed Highway 1 and raised community concerns about toxic smoke and ash. He said many early storage installations used older configurations that increased risks of thermal runaway and that the state’s storage fleet has grown dramatically: testimony cited…
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