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What Moss Landing actually tells us about battery safety.
The fire everyone heard about, and the decade of engineering that makes it a story about the past, not the future.
In January 2025, a fire at the Moss Landing Energy Storage Facility put grid batteries on the front page. If your only exposure to battery storage is that headline, the takeaway feels obvious: batteries are risky. The engineering record says something much more specific, and much more useful.
The burned facility was a 2018 design, and a globally unique one. The industry moved on from it years ago: the chemistry changed, the enclosures changed, and the code caught up.
By the Numbers Battery safety since Moss Landing
2021
The year Tesla moved its Megapack product to LFP, the safer battery chemistry.
167-C
The CPUC fire-safety order adopted in March 2025, on top of NFPA 855.
1
Containers involved when fire broke out next door to Moss Landing in 2022. It never spread.
100%
Of the batteries MYNT specifies are LFP, in modular enclosures, built to current code.
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