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Executive Summary agency to mitigate or avoid the significant environmental impacts resulting from proposed projects, when feasible, and to identify a range of feasible alternatives to the proposed Project that could reduce those environmental effects. The EIR must include the contents required by CEQA and the CEQA Guidelines, and examine all phases of the project, including planning, construction, operation, and any reasonably foreseeable future phases. PROJECT LOCATION The Project site is situated roughly in the southwestern corner of Township 2 South, Range 4 East, southeast portion of Section 32 of the Midway, California, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) 7.5-minute topographic quadrangle. The Project site is centered at a latitude of 37.710 degrees and longitude of-121.554 degrees (in decimal degrees). The Property is approximately 0.9 mile southwest of Interstate 580 and approximately 5 miles southwest of the city of Tracy, and in proximity to the PG&E Tesla Substation. The Project site consists of Assessor Parcel Number (APN) 209-10-19 in San Joaquin County and APN 99B-7885-002 and 99B-7590-1-3 in Alameda County for the access road and gen-tie line. PROJECT OBJECTIVES The Applicant has identified the following Project Objectives: 1. Construct and operate a 400-MW BESS in San Joaquin County with an interconnection at the Tesla Substation (located in Alameda County) in a cost-competitive manner. 2. Assist California utilities in meeting their obligations under California's Renewable Portfolio Standard Program and Senate Bill (SB) 100, which calls for 100 percent of all electricity sold in California to come from carbon-free resources by the year 2045, including 60 percent renewables by 2030, and SB 1020, which requires utility providers to supply 90 percent and 95 percent of supplied electricity from renewable sources by 2035 and 2040, respectively. 3. Assist California utilities in meeting their obligations under the California Public Utilities Commission's (CPUC) Mid-Term Reliability Procurement Requirements. 4. Provide for the economically viable, commercially financeable, and environmentally beneficial use of the site's limited agricultural capacity due to the absence of available irrigation. 5. Develop a site in proximity to transmission infrastructure in order to minimize environmental impacts. 6. Develop a battery energy storage facility in San Joaquin County, which would support the economy by investing in the local community, creating local construction jobs and increasing tax and fee revenue to the County. Griffith Energy Storage Project ES-2 Tetra Tech/SCH 2022120675 Draft Environmental Impact Report August 2023