Moss Landing battery fire update: Residents, supes left with more questions than answers

RESIDENTS AND LAWMAKERS were expecting to get some answers Tuesday at the Monterey County Board of Supervisors meeting about the consequences of a lithium-ion fueled Battery Energy Storage System fire that ripped through a Moss Landing facility in January 2025, but they left with only questions. 

Questions were left unanswered about why scientists hired by the company, Vistra Corp., failed to investigate hundreds of large, black chunks of sediment that were seen deposited in the surrounding area in the days after the fire. Or why the company waited until May to start analyzing impacts, four months after the fire.