SDGE presents 2.0 battery energy storage facility system to FCPG

San Diego Gas & Electric is building a 30MW expansion onto the existing 40MW battery energy storage system (BESS) facility in the 1300 block of East Mission Road. This expansion makes this BESS facility SDG&E's second largest in the county. The largest, Westside Canal, is in Imperial Valley surrounded by desert with no residential or agriculture around it. The project does not have the support of the Fallbrook Community Planning Group.

Because the discretion to approve or deny the battery energy storage system is with the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) rather than with the Count...