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Battery storage with four hours' duration such as the one pictured, is largely seen as key for adding firm capacity in much of the US. Image: Vistra Energy.

World’s biggest lithium battery storage facility now completely offline after weekend incident

February 16, 2022
An incident which caused batteries to short has taken offline Phase II of Moss Landing Energy Storage Facility in Monterey County, California, the world’s biggest lithium-ion battery energy storage system (BESS) project.
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