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Escondido extends moratorium on utility-scale battery storage for up to 12 months, allows one California Energy Commission project
Summary
The City Council voted 4-1 to extend an urgency moratorium on new commercial battery energy storage systems (BESS) for up to 12 months while staff coordinates code updates, and approved an exception for a project submitted to the California Energy Commission before the ordinance's effective date.
The Escondido City Council voted 4-1 on Oct. 21 to extend an urgency moratorium on permitting commercial, utility-scale battery energy storage systems (BESS) for up to 12 months, and to add an exception for any BESS project submitted to the California Energy Commission (CEC) before the ordinance's effective date.
Chris McKinney, deputy city manager, briefed the council on the background: the council previously adopted a 2024 resolution and two urgency ordinances restricting BESS development in the city, and the most recent urgency ordinance is…
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