On Nov. 18, the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors will consider moving forward with an ordinance to regulate Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS), including where they can be located and what ...

A fire broke out at a battery energy storage system site in Warwick, N.Y., on Dec. 19. It was the second time that this particular BESS site has erupted in flames since 2023. It was the third ...

Seven months after a huge fire at one of the world’s largest battery storage plants, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Wednesday that crews will soon begin removing more than 50,000 ...

Nine months after a huge fire at a battery storage plant in Moss Landing raised questions about how to balance public safety with California’s ambitious plans to expand renewable energy, officials in ...

A fire at Vistra Corp’s 300-MW Moss Landing battery facility has triggered widespread safety concerns, prompting local moratoriums on new large-scale battery energy storage systems (BESS) in several U ...

OTTAWA COUNTY, MI -- In rural Ottawa County, road signs dot the landscape urging “Stop Project BESS.” The signs feature a bucolic scene of Holstein cows in the forefront, with an industrial fire in ...

(BCN) — A wave of lawsuits, large and small, have been waged against Vistra Corporation, PG&E and many of their associated companies in the months following an explosive Jan. 16 fire at their battery ...

After the Moss Landing BESS fire in January 2025, a marine biologist and his colleagues found that about 55,000 pounds of heavy metals were deposited across about half a square mile of wetland in the ...

Solano County’s attempt to regulate large-scale battery storage projects faces a major challenge: Two such projects are moving forward under a state-level permitting process that bypasses local ...