Renewable energy advocates have long called for building battery complexes to store intermittent solar and wind energy, but a recent fire that spewed toxic heavy metals all around a California battery ...

With battery-powered cars, windmills, and solar farms California hopes to shrink its carbon footprint to nothing. But some see a downside.

The recent California fire that spewed toxic heavy metals all around a battery storage facility that went up in flames have ...

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Santa Cruz County supervisors met to discuss potential toxin spread from the Moss Landing battery plant fire, with residents ...

Safety standards and regulations have not kept up with emerging technology for battery storage.

At Wednesday afternoon’s County of Monterey briefing, Ricardo Encarnacion, bureau chief and County of Monterey director of ...

In a sweeping decision, the Morro Bay City Council voted to block any proposals that involve building a battery storage ...

In the wake of the fire earlier this month at Vistra Corporation's Moss Landing Power Plant and Energy Storage Facility, the ...

BESS stands for “Battery Energy Storage System.” The largest BESS in the US is located at Moss Landing in California. It is 3000 Megawatt-hours in size, and was built in sections.