The 6-acre battery plant sits on a 20-acre property at 650 Joshua St., nestled among agricultural land west of Highway 101.

Surging summer energy demands Both facilities have been offline since Jan. 16, when a Vistra-owned building containing 99,000 LG battery modules caught fire.

PRUNEDALE — Never Again Moss Landing, a local watchdog group, released a report claiming a lack of oversight and several key failures contributed to the Jan. 16 fire at Vistra’s Moss Landing ...

Four months after a massive fire ignited in Monterey County at one of the world's largest lithium-ion battery storage facilities, Pacific Gas & Electric said it intends to reactivate an adjacent ...

The fire at the Vistra battery plant started Jan. 16, caused the evacuation of 1,200 people in the Moss Landing area, released smoke and toxic heavy metals and kept Highway 1 closed for three days.

A bystander watches the smoke and flames from Castroville as a fire at the Vistra battery storage plant burns in Moss Landing, Calif., on Friday, Jan. 17, 2025. (Doug Duran/Bay Area News Group) ...

The project has been under increased scrutiny in the wake of the Moss Landing battery plant fire in January. Tuesday's meeting was put on by a grassroots organization of community members opposed ...

A bystander watches the smoke and flames from Castroville as a fire at the Vistra battery storage plant burns in Moss Landing, Calif., on Friday, Jan. 17, 2025. (Doug Duran/Bay Area News Group) ...

The fire at the Vistra battery plant started Jan. 16, caused the evacuation of 1,200 people in the Moss Landing area, released smoke and toxic heavy metals and kept Highway 1 closed for three days.