Following the lithium battery fires at an SDG&E storage facility in Escondido and another in Otay Mesa, the County Board of Supervisors will consider putting a…
The item was already scheduled for the board but gained more urgency following the Thursday afternoon fire at the SDG&E facilityThe action in front of the supervisors on Wednesday will present several options to the board. The body can request additional fire suppression technical reports and/or include new disclosure requirements to make any new battery energy storage systems go"above and beyond" current code requirements.
The moratorium the supervisors will discuss couldn't come any sooner, some residents of Escondido say. "The Escondido battery fire is unfolding in an industrial area away from homes and residences. However, it reinforces the concerns of residents that a project that is 10 times larger is being proposed, which would be surrounded by hundreds of homes and upwind from a hospital in northern San Diego County, near Escondido," they write."Despite the current fire being in an industrial area, hundreds of businesses were evacuated and many more were told to shelter-in-place.
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