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The battery packs are Tesla Megapacks, as was celebrated when the facility opened in 2022 https://investor.pgecorp.com/news-events/press-releases/press-release
by floatrock 2y ago
The battery packs are Tesla Megapacks, as was celebrated when the facility opened in 2022
https://investor.pgecorp.com/news-events/press-releases/press-release-details/2022/Creating-Our-Clean-Energy-Future-PGE-Commissions-its-Moss-Landing-Elkhorn-Battery/default.aspx https://investor.pgecorp.com/news-events/press-releases/pres...
If politics played a role, it's the convenient omission of this in the linked article while the owner/operator company was named.
[edit]: Nope, I'm wrong per reply below. There is a 2022 Tesla array at Moss Landing, but apparently the one that caught fire was an older 2020 array with LG batteries. Read the article below instead, the chemistry and designs for large battery arrays changed a lot in those years, and looks like we're seeing "safety standards are written in blood" play out live here.
- martinpw 2y agoUnless the fire spread to them, it seems the batteries that burned were not from Tesla but from a different provider at the same site https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/energy-storage/moss-landing-fire-reveals-flaws-in-the-battery-industrys-early-designs https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/energy-storage/moss-lan... Vistra used batteries manufactured by Korea's LG (not Tesla batteries, as some news reports incorrectly claimed; a separate Tesla battery array sits next door).