Moss Landing battery fire hit plant with older, vulnerable technology

The article states, 'When it opened back in 2020, Vistra Corp.’s Moss Landing battery-powered storage plant was billed as a state-of-the-art component of California’s clean energy future.

Today, that facility – once considered the world’s largest -- is in ruins from a fire last month that burned for two days, destroying 80% of its batteries.

Vistra says it cannot be certain the extent of the damage, however, because its crews have yet to enter the building where the fire occurred. Vistra has two neighboring battery facilities on the Moss Landing site that were not damaged.'