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Never Again Moss Landing, a local watchdog group, released a report claiming a lack of oversight and several key failures ...
"Battery storage is the backbone of a renewable grid. It stores solar power when the sun isn’t shining and balances demand throughout the day," write Wendy Root Askew and Fred Keeley in a Guest ...
A fire rages out of control at the Vistra battery storage plant, one of the world’s largest, in Moss Landing, Calif., on Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025. (Doug Duran/Bay Area News Group) ...
Smoke drifts across railroad tracks along Dolan Road in Moss Landing on Jan. 16, 2025 as fire rages at Vistra Energy power plant’s battery storage facility.
MOSS LANDING, Calif. — Neighbors in Moss Landing are worried for their safety after the power plant reignited Tuesday night, just over a month after the fire in mid-January.
The plant is located on the site of a now-shuttered 1950s-era PG&E Moss Landing natural gas plant visible for its huge smokestacks near Moss Landing Harbor. The first phase was completed in 2020 ...
Residents living near a power plant in Central California were ordered to evacuate Thursday ... in the 300-MW Phase I energy storage facility at the Moss Landing Power Plant site," Lyon ...
Fire blazes Jan. 17 at the Vistra power plant’s battery storage facility in Moss Landing in northern Monterey County. (Shmuel Thaler – Santa Cruz Sentinel) ...