A packed town hall at Watsonville City Hall on Monday listened to community concerns over a proposed battery energy storage ...

As global BESS deployment accelerates, Fike outlines why layered safety systems must evolve to meet the growing risk of thermal runaway.

Members of the Watsonville City Council authored a letter to the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors expressing concerns ...

Instead, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill supported by the industry and labor unions, SB 283, by State Sen. John Laird, ...

Rochester residents are weeks away from learning whether a proposed lithium-ion battery energy storage system (BESS) will be coming to town. Concern is mounting. The proposed facility, located 7505 ...

The community was charged on Wednesday night at a meeting hosted by the City of Vacaville concerning battery energy storage ...

The NIMBY arguments against solar and storage range from the insane (solar panels suck up all the energy from the sun!) to ...

Large-scale battery storage isn’t new, but as more projects appear across Massachusetts, residents are asking the right ...

The Santa Cruz Sentinel’s Letters to the Editor for Oct. 21, 2025.

In January, the coastal California town of Moss Landing witnessed the most destructive battery fire in U.S. history.

Batteries that pair with clean solar and wind energy or just bolster electrical grids in general have completely taken off ...

Howe cited the risk of lithium-ion battery fires at the proposed site. He noted a massive fire at a plant in Moss Landing, California, in January that burned for days, shut down schools and resulted ...