HUGE FLAMES BLAZED through the roof of the industrial building. Billowing smoke rose slowly to a plume and moved inland.

Renewable energy advocates have long called for building battery complexes to store intermittent solar and wind energy, but a ...

Nickel, cobalt and manganese, found in lithium-ion batteries, increased dramatically at Elkhorn Slough after the fire ...

(Reuters) -One of the world's largest battery storage facilities — Vistra Corp's 3000-megawatt in Moss Landing, south of San ...

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

The Tulare County Board of Supervisors will take up a proposal by Vistra Energy to build a new 50-megawatt battery energy storage system adjacent to a 70-megawatt solar farm near the town of Terra ...

Scientists have linked a lithium battery plant fire in California earlier this month to a surge in heavy metals found in nearby soil.

The bill comes after a major fire at the Moss Landing Power Plant forced evacuations and road closures last week.

In the wake of a spate of fires at battery storage facilities across the state, the California Public Utilities Commission ...

The CPUC will vote on a proposal adopting new safety standards for the maintenance and operation of battery energy storage ...

State Assemblymember Dawn Addis introduces bill removing fast-track state permitting of BESS projects like the one that ...

Officials say that the proposal will make other technical updates to the standards to improve safety, reliability, and ...