Moss Landing Battery Fire Update: Residents, Supes Left with More Questions than Answers

Moss Landing battery fire update: Residents, supes left with more questions than answers

RESIDENTS AND LAWMAKERS were expecting to get some answers Tuesday at the Monterey County Board of Supervisors meeting about the consequences of a lithium-ion fueled Battery Energy Storage System fire that ripped through a Moss Landing facility in January 2025, but they left with only questions.  Questions were left unanswered about why scientists hired by the company, Vistra Corp., failed to investigate hundreds of large, black chunks of sedime…

A patchy picture of contamination from the Vistra battery plant fire emerges.

The location of the Vistra battery plant fire poses obvious risks. The battery energy storage system (BESS) facility at Moss Landing, which went ablaze on Jan. 16, 2025, is adjacent to residential areas, businesses, agricultural lands and protected wildlife areas,…