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Moss Landing Battery Fire Leads to Health Fears, Evidence of Contamination and Concerns About Overreaction

Residents describe experiences of sore throats and other symptoms. The energy storage industry insists that this incident is an extreme outlier.

By Dan Gearino, Kiley Price

 Flames and smoke rise from the Moss Landing Energy Storage Facility after a fire erupted on Jan. 16 in Monterey Bay, Calif. Credit: Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images
A fire erupts at the Moss Landing Energy Storage Facility on Jan. 16 in Monterey County, Calif. Credit: Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images

Making Sense of the Giant Fire that Could Set Back Energy Storage

By Dan Gearino
A visitor looks at sodium-ion battery products at the smart vehicle section of the China International Supply Chain Expo in Beijing on Dec. 1, 2023. Credit: Li He/Xinhua via Getty Images

This Low-Cost EV Battery (Kind of) Runs on Salt, and It’s Having a Moment

By Dan Gearino
A view of power lines owned by Dominion Energy in Culpeper, Va. Credit: Zack Wajsgras/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Latest Dominion Energy Development Forecasts Raise Ire of Virginia Environmentalists

By Jake Bolster
A rendering of Silver City Energy Centre, a compressed air energy storage plant to be built by Hydrostor in Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. Credit: Hydrostor

A Major Technology for Long-Duration Energy Storage Is Approaching Its Moment of Truth

By Dan Gearino
Kyle Roerink, right, leads a hike in the Duck Creek Range, where a pumped storage project is proposed in Ely, Nevada, on Thursday Oct. 5, 2023. Credit: Alex Gould

Pumped Storage Hydro Could be Key to the Clean Energy Transition. But Where Will the Water Come From?

By Wyatt Myskow
Battery blocks are be seen in a commercial battery park. Credit: Jens Büttner/picture alliance via Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: US Battery Storage Soared in 2021, Including These Three Monster Projects

By Dan Gearino
This compressed air energy storage plant in Goderich, Ontario, is one of the two small plants built by Hydrostor ahead of its current proposals to build much larger plants in California. The Goderich plant, completed in 2019, can discharge 1.75 megawatts for about six hours before needing to be recharged. Photo Courtesy of Hydrostor

Inside Clean Energy: Here’s How Compressed Air Can Provide Long-Duration Energy Storage

By Dan Gearino
Workers install battery modules at the Manatee Energy Storage Center in Florida, being developed by Florida Power & Light. The project, on track to be complete by the end of the year, will have 409 megawatts of capacity, which would make it the largest battery storage project in the world by capacity. Photo Courtesy of Florida Power & Light

Inside Clean Energy: Taking Stock of the Energy Storage Boom Happening Right Now

By Dan Gearino

Energy Storage Law Would Attract Manufacturers and Jobs to California

By Sara Stroud

Feds Pour Millions into Innovative Energy Storage Projects in New York

By Guest Writer

Australia Group Rolls Out Plan for 100% Renewable Energy by 2020

By Stacy Feldman

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