PG&E plans to reopen lithium battery plant near Monterey County site burned in toxic fire A fire burns at Vistra Corp.’s Moss Landing battery storage facility in Moss Landing on Jan. 17.

The dramatic fire at the 750-megawatt battery plant began on Jan. 16 and burned for two days. It caused the evacuation of 1,200 local residents and the closure of Highway 1 for three days.

Charlie Endris (left), a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) spatial analyst, and Ivano Aiello (right), a professor and department chair at Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, test the soil for metal ...

The flames have died down at the Moss Landing battery storage plant in Monterey County, after a massive fire last month. But the environmental impacts may be just beginning. At the neighboring Elkhorn ...

In a separate study, researchers at San Jose State University’s Moss Landing Marine Laboratories in the Elkhorn Slough Reserve, an estuary next to the battery facility, found that the levels of ...

A bystander watches the smoke and flames from Castroville as a fire at the Vistra battery storage plant burns in Moss Landing on Friday, Jan. 17, 2025. Doug Duran Bay Area News Group ...

The battery storage plant caught fire on Jan. 16 for “an unknown reason,” and firefighters essentially had to let it burn itself out.

Opponents of the local battery storage project say the Jan. 16 fire at Vistra Energy’s Moss Landing Power Plant ‒ one of the world’s largest battery storage sites ‒ should be a warning of ...

Elevated concentrations of heavy metals have been detected at the Elkhorn Slough Reserve by scientists following a recent fire at Vistra Moss Landing Power Plant and Energy Storage Facility.

A fire at the Moss Landing battery plant may have released heavy metals into the nearby Elkhorn Slough Reserve. Researchers at San Jose State University found high levels of nickel, manganese, and ...