A lithium battery fire that erupted at a Moss Landing power plant continues to smolder and Monterey County residents are asking public officials and the facility's leaders what health risks they ...

Five days after the world’s largest lithium battery fire ignited at Vistra Energy Corporation in Moss Landing the Monterey County Board of Supervisors called on all battery storage operations at the ...

Health officials still advised residents near the Moss Landing Vistra Power Plant, located about 90 miles south of San Francisco, to limit outdoor exposure and to keep doors and windows closed ...

Vistra, which is proposing the Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) facility project in Morro Bay, is also the same company that owns a BESS facility in Moss Landing that recently caught fire.

MONTEREY COUNTY, Calif. -- In a special meeting on Tuesday, the Monterey County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a resolution to proclaim a local state of emergency to address the various ...

The sight of the Moss Landing battery storage facility was originally opened in 1950 as a power plant. It was one of the largest power plants on the West Coast at the time.

(Photo by Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images) For decades, Moss Landing’s horizon has been dominated by two towering smoke stacks rising above the power plant. Pacific Gas & Electric built ...

As one of the largest lithium battery plants in the world continues to smolder in Moss Landing ... the beloved and sometimes reviled Morro Bay smokestacks — in the hands of voters.

2023, and Vistra left the iconic smokestacks. The demolition was done to make room for expansion efforts. Before the latest fire, the Moss Landing facility had a capacity of 750 MW/ 3,000 MWh.

As one of the largest lithium battery plants in the world continues to smolder in Moss Landing, activists in another Central Coast town — defined over the last century by its industrial ...