One of world's largest lithium battery plants ablaze in Moss Landing Besides horrible environmental issues. Wonder if this will affect consumers.
Calling it a plant isn't clear. That could mean a factory or a power generator. The site is an electric grid storage site, not a place batteries are made.
Yes, it's an energy power plant w/lithium battery (LG) storage facility onsite. The batteries are used during peak energy consumption, when energy generation can't keep up with demand. Moss Landing Power Plant - Wikipedia
"Monterey County Sheriff Tina Nieto said there had been no injuries reported and that none of the air quality monitoring systems picked up on any dangerous gasses in the air. Despite that, she said the county wanted to await the arrival of a more advanced monitoring system Friday afternoon before lifting the evacuation order." Fire at Moss Landing battery plant flares again after officials earlier said ‘most of the fire is out.’ Evacuations, road closures continue – The Mercury News More details on the fire and site at that article.
Exactly... The headlines for this event are so stupid! Journalists seem to become increasingly uneducated these days. This is one of the first major battery-based power stations to come online in a 1/2 dozen years and thus a major fire at the oldest and once largest battery power supply stations in the country brings up all kinds of question about their long term safety because you usually can't put out a Lithium-Ion fire. I'm sure all the people living next to these new types of facilities will are calculated to be a much higher liability than they were a week ago.
Consumers of what? I thought they learned their lesson when the tesla batteries went up in flames there in 2022. This used to be a PGE power plant going way back. They don’t own it anymore I don’t believe. Not a battery making plant. So when she calls it a plant, it used to be a power plant. Not sure what the owner is doing with it. Maybe it still is a power plant.
To clarify, these massive battery facilities store energy when electricity demands are low and send their power to the grid when demands are high. Replacing electrical power generation with electrical power storage at scale makes the entire power grid, way, way, way more efficient. More information about this particular plant it here: Moss Landing Power Plant - Wikipedia
