California battery facility fire raises concerns over energy
Following a lithium-ion battery fire at the Moss Landing plant in Monterey County in California, communities nationwide are expressing concerns about hosting similar plants.
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The fire raged through the weekend, forcing local officials to evacuate nearby homes and close roads. Battery storage is an essential part of the transition away from fossil fuels.
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But as lithium-ion battery prices continue to fall and system safety improves, the technology could prove difficult to dislodge, at least in the energy storage industry, Woodward said.
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One group has filed a lawsuit against the company that owns the site. In the wake of high-profile fires like Moss Landing, there are very understandable concerns about battery safety.
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The upshot here is that nobody building a battery project today would do it with the particular technological generation of batteries or the fire code specs that Vistra used at Moss Landing.