Breaking! The world's largest energy storage power station is on fire again! It is urgent to address the issue of "explosive temper" of batteries from the source.
Release time:
2025-01-21
According to reports from The Paper and Sina Finance, a fire broke out on the afternoon of January 16, 2025, at the world's largest battery storage power station currently operating in California, USA. The fire spread rapidly, producing thick black smoke, and 1,500 people were urgently evacuated. The cause of the incident is still unknown. All personnel on site have safely evacuated, and no injuries have been reported so far.
According to reports from The Paper and Sina Finance,on the afternoon of January 16, 2025, a fire broke out at the world's largest battery storage power station currently operating in California, USA.The fire spread rapidly, with thick black smoke rising into the sky, and 1,500 people were urgently evacuated. The cause of the incident is still unknown. All personnel on site have been safely evacuated, and no injuries have been reported so far.
The facility that caught fire is a battery storage project of Vistra Energy at the Moss Landing storage power station, which is also one of the largest storage power plants in the world, equipped with tens of thousands of storage batteries.
According to public information, the Moss Landing storage power station experienced two fires on September 4, 2021, and February 14, 2022. On September 4, 2021, due to a programming error in the fire smoke system, the water cooling system of the batteries was mistakenly activated, causing a small number of joints on some hoses and pipes to fail, leading to water spraying onto the battery racks, resulting in short circuits and arcs, which damaged the batteries and produced more smoke, triggering a chain thermal reaction. On February 13, 2022, a similar incident occurred at the Moss Landing storage power station, where about 10 battery racks were melted, but no personnel were injured on site.
It is worth noting that PG&E operates another storage power station called Elkhorn to the north of the aforementioned power station, which also experienced a fire in September 2022.
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Source of information:
Breaking! The world's largest storage power station catches fire again | Fire _ Sina Finance _ Sina.com
https://finance.sina.com.cn/esg/2025-01-18/doc-inefmmis1978226.shtml
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