Bill Text: CA SB38 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Battery energy storage facilities: emergency response and emergency action plans.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-10-07 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 377, Statutes of 2023. [SB38 Detail]

Download: California-2023-SB38-Introduced.html

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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Senate Bill

No. 38

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Introduced by Senator Laird

December 05, 2022

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An act to relating to energy.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 38, as introduced, Laird. Battery storage facilities: safety systems.

Existing law vests the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) with regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations, while local publicly owned electric utilities are under the direction of their governing boards. Existing law requires the PUC to ensure that facilities needed to maintain the reliability of the electrical supply remain available and operational.

Existing law establishes an Independent System Operator (ISO) as a nonprofit public benefit corporation and requires the ISO to ensure efficient use and reliable operation of the electrical transmission grid consistent with achieving planning and operating reserve criteria no less stringent than those established by the Western Electricity Coordinating Council and the North American Electric Reliability Council.

This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact future legislation to address the need for better safety systems at battery storage facilities.

Digest Key

Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: NO   Local Program: NO  

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Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 It is the intent of the Legislature to enact future legislation to address the need for better safety systems at battery storage facilities.