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Flames and black smoke from a battery storage container at a San Diego Gas & Electric facility in Escondido on Sept. 5. (Don Bartletti / For The San Diego Union-Tribune)
Flames and black smoke from a battery storage container at a San Diego Gas & Electric facility in Escondido on Sept. 5. (Don Bartletti / For The San Diego Union-Tribune)
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The supervisors balked at implementing enhanced interim safety requirements and voted 3-1 to receive a 95-page technical study conducted by Jensen Hughes, an international consulting group that specializes in fire protection engineering.

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This story has been updated to state that battery energy storage projects under consideration by the County Board of Supervisors  will continue to be reviewed on a case-by-case basis under the California Environmental Quality Act known as CEQA.

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