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Committee advances bill to require emergency-action plans with energy facility applications
Summary
AB 615 would require battery energy storage and similar energy facilities to submit emergency action plans as part of their initial applications to the California Energy Commission and to coordinate with local first responders. Committee passed the bill to Utilities and Energy with unanimous support.
Assemblymember Davies presented AB 615 and the committee advanced the measure to the Committee on Utilities and Energy.
Under current law, battery energy storage facilities must have emergency response and action plans coordinated with local emergency agencies, but, as the author noted, developers are not uniformly required to submit a full emergency action plan as part of…
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