The Morro Bay City Council has taken steps to temporarily block new battery energy storage facilities starting next year. The council voted 4-0 to direct staff to develop an urgency ordinance to pause the city’s ability to process new battery plant development permits for up to two years. According to the Tribune, the urgency ordinance would only prevent the city from reviewing new applications. If Passed it would not affect a 600-megawatt battery energy storage facility already proposed for the Morro Bay Power Plant property.
