Glenn Church, Monterey County Supervisorial District 2, talks about the fire at the battery storage facility in Moss Landing during a press conference in Castroville, Calif., on Friday, Jan. 17, 2025.

Glenn Church, Monterey County Supervisorial District 2, talks about the fire at the battery storage facility in Moss Landing during a press conference in Castroville, Calif., on Friday, Jan. 17, 2025.

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. (Shmuel Thaler; Santa Cruz Sentinel) ...

As Santa Cruz County officials consider a battery storage facility near Watsonville, experts sought to reassure residents ...

A battery storage facility burns at Moss Landing Power Plant in Monterey County, California, on January 17, 2025. Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu/Getty ...

Darden storage site in Fresno County is the first California project to be permitted under the state’s new Opt-In Certification program to speed environmental review of critical energy infrastructure ...

The same company that operates the Moss Landing Power Plant, Vistra, is also proposing a battery energy storage facility in Morro Bay. Addis has said that she wants Vistra to withdraw that proposal.

BREKKE: Nick Warner, a co-founder of the Energy Safety Response Group, which consults with plant owners and firefighting agencies, says backlash from Moss Landing could have a lasting impact.

The expansion increased storage capacity at the Moss Landing Energy Storage Facility to 750 megawatts, housing over 110,000 battery units. Vistra Energy claims this makes it the largest battery ...

China’s Fengning station alone can deliver 40 GWh of power—dwarfing U.S. battery sites like Moss Landing, which has just 3 ...

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. (Shmuel Thaler; Santa Cruz Sentinel) ...