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Commissioners pressed on training, water tanks and ordinance language for battery projects
Summary
During a Q&A, officials focused on emergency-response needs, community benefit agreements, onsite water storage, equipment requests for rural fire districts and suggested ordinance requirements such as proof of standards compliance and lane widths for emergency vehicles.
At a Bannock County informational session, commissioners focused on what developers should provide to ensure safe operations of battery energy storage systems and what local code could require.
Commissioner 2 asked about funding for emergency training and equipment for multiple jurisdictions that could be called to incidents; Scott Rinsley of RWE described community benefit agreements developers often use to supply capital improvements and annual training. "We create basically a community…
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