Pub. Resources Code, § 3190 · Article 3.6. Gravity-Based Energy Storage Well Pilot Program
Pub. Resources Code, § 3190
Text — As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)
For purposes of this article, the following definitions apply:
(a) “Federal agency” means the United States Environmental Protection Agency, including Region 9 of that agency.
(b) (1) “Gravity-based energy storage well” means a well that meets all of the following:
(A) The well is plugged with all perforations sealed, including by the use of permanent bridge plug.
(B) The well is isolated from a hydrocarbon reservoir.
(C) The well has mechanical integrity.
(D) The well is not a conduit for fluid migration into a beneficial use aquifer.
(E) The well is exclusively used to store or generate energy by raising or lowering a weight within the well casing.
(2) A well that has been fully plugged and abandoned pursuant to Section 3208 is not eligible to be a gravity-based energy storage well.
(3) A well listed as an orphan well pursuant to subparagraph (C) of paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 3206.3 or an idle-deserted well, as defined in Section 3251, is eligible to be converted for use as a gravity-based energy storage well if all applicable and necessary rights to do so have been obtained.
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History
Added by Stats. 2025, Ch. 419, Sec. 1. (SB 567) Effective January 1, 2026. Repealed as of January 1, 2035, pursuant to Section 3190.9.
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