Some residents of the area have registered health problems that they claim that they are related to the fire, and some environmental tests have burned the fire near the pollutants in water and soil. A group has claimed a site -owned company.
Following a high profile fire like moss landing, there are very understandable concerns about battery safety. At the same time, such as more winds, solar power zones and other variable electricity sources come in the nale, large energe -storey storage installations for the grid will be more crucial.
Let’s look at what happened in this fire, what is the delayed concerns and what the ENERGY is ahead for the Zoja storage industry.
The moss landing fire was seen on January 16 in the afternoon, According to local news reports. It started small but quickly spread to a large part of the plant battery. More than 1000 residents were out .The nearby roads were closed, and a huge emergency warning warned people to stay home nearby.
Hit the oldest group of batteries installed in Moss Landing, a 300-megawat array that comes online in 2020. Additional installations bring the total capacity to the site to about 750 MW, meaning it can give the grid so energy. Standard coal -powered power plant for a few hours at a time.
In a statement that site owner Vista Energy Raza To New York Times, Most of the batteries inside the affected building (one in which 300 MW arrays) burned. However, the company does not have a specific tally, as the crew is still prohibited from going in to perform visual inspection.
This is not the first time when batteries are on fire in Moss Landing – many events have happened since opening at the plant. However, the phenomenon was “more significant” than the previous fire, “said Dustin Mulwan, a professor at San Jose State University, who studied the plant.
Residents are concerned about the potential consequences. US Environmental Defense Agency Observation of the nearest air For hydrogen fluoride, a dangerous gas that can be produced in lithium-ion battery fire, and could not detect higher levels of California standards. But in some preliminary tests, elevated layers of metals including cobalt, nickel, copper and manganese were found in the surrounding soil. Metals were also found in local drinking water in the tests, though they are considered safe at the level.
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