§ 3190
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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.
(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.