The Moss Landing battery fire became an unintended experiment – showing how burning lithium-ion cells scattered nickel, cobalt and manganese over a protected marsh.

Chris Linsmayer, Key Capture Energy Public Affairs Manager, talks about the company's large lithium battery energy storage system, Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2025 in Blasdell, N.Y., which can power 15,000 ...

As Brookhaven Town prepares to review applications for up to eight large battery storage plants next year, residents, firefighters and lawmakers at a rally in Holbrook last week opposed their ...

Responding to a major fire in January at a battery storage plant in Moss Landing that sent a toxic cloud over a wide area and caused the evacuations of residents and the closure of Highway 1, the ...

A packed town hall at Watsonville City Hall on Monday listened to community concerns over a proposed battery energy storage facility planned off Minto Road, near homes and schools. Many residents ...

January fire cost Texas company $400 million and stiffened opposition to the projects, which are key to renewable energy ...

A major fire in January at one of the world’s largest battery storage plants in Moss Landing showered 55,000 pounds of toxic metals across the landscape within a mile of the plant, a new scientific ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A massive fire broke out at a battery energy storage system facility in Peoria, Arizona, earlier this month, requiring a large-scale response from multiple area fire departments ...

The Moss Landing battery inferno was billed as a clean energy mishap, but the fallout was anything but clean. A new wave of ...

Every decision carries some degree of uncertainty and risk. What differs is how much risk people are willing to accept. That ...

But as more energy storage is added, residents in some places are pushing back due to fears that the systems will go up in flames, as a massive facility in California did earlier this year. Proponents ...