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2025 Moss Landing Battery Fire

 
Site Contact:
Ramon Albizu
Federal On Scene Coordinator

(albizu.ramon@epa.gov)

Site Location:
7301 Highway 1
Moss Landing, CA 95039
 response.epa.gov/Moss_Landing_Li-ion_Fire
NRC#: 1421248

On January 16, 2025, the Moss Landing 300 battery energy storage system at the Moss Landing Vistra power plant (Monterey County, Calif.) caught fire.

  • The 300-megawatt system held about 100,000 lithium-ion batteries.
  • About 55 percent of the batteries were damaged by the fire.

Local agencies immediately requested our support for air monitoring. EPA deployed to the scene and did air monitoring January 17-20.

The State of California also requested we oversee the battery removal process.

On July 17, 2025, EPA entered into an agreement with Vistra to remove damaged batteries from its property.