A fire has broken out at a battery storage facility adjacent to the gas-fueled Moss Landing Power Plant in Monterey County, California, and locals are urged to shut down air systems and close ...

A fire broke out at the Moss Landing Energy Storage Facility in Central California Thursday. The battery power plant is the largest in the world according to the company, Vistra, that owns it.

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 ...

The Moss Landing Power Plant, located about 77 miles (about 124 kilometers) south of San Francisco, is owned by Texas-based company Vistra Energy and contains tens of thousands of lithium batteries.

Burning fire at the site of Vistra Corp's power plant in Moss Landing, California, U.S., January 16, 2025 in this screen grab obtained from a social media video. @picklevisionz via instagram/via ...

The Vistra Moss Landing natural gas fired power plant seen during the day in Moss Landing, California, U.S., on Monday, Jan. 17, 2022. (David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images) There is ...

MOSS LANDING – Some 1,200 residents were allowed to return home Friday night after they were evacuated a day earlier due to a major fire at the Vistra battery storage plant in Moss Landing.

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) ...

Vistra Energy's Moss Landing Power Plant was located in the unincorporated community of Moss Landing. The fire at the 300-megawatt lithium storage facility destroyed most of the building and its ...

At the time, Vistra said that "300 megawatts/1,200 megawatt-hours, the lithium-ion battery storage system, located on-site at Vistra's Moss Landing Power Plant in Monterey County, California, will ...

A fire at a major battery-storage plant in Northern California prompted the evacuation of hundreds of nearby residents and the closure of schools and parts of Highway 1 nearby.