MOSS LANDING – Some 1,200 residents were allowed to return home Friday night after they were evacuated a day earlier due to a ...

(Doug Duran/Bay Area News Group) The plant is located on the site of a now-shuttered 1950s-era PG&E Moss Landing natural gas plant visible for its huge smokestacks near Moss Landing Harbor.

As one of the largest lithium battery plants in the world continues to smolder in Moss Landing, activists in another Central Coast town are, for now, breathing a sigh of relief.

The sight of the Moss Landing battery storage facility was originally opened in 1950 as a power plant. It was one of the largest power plants on the West Coast at the time.

The plant is located on the site of a now-shuttered 1950s-era PG&E natural gas plant, visible for its huge smokestacks near Moss Landing Harbor. The first phase of construction of the battery ...

(Doug Duran/Bay Area News Group) The facility is located on the site of a now-shuttered 1950s-era PG&E Moss Landing natural gas plant visible for its huge smokestacks near Moss Landing Harbor.

(Photo by Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images) For decades, Moss Landing’s horizon has been dominated by two towering smoke stacks rising above the power plant. Pacific Gas & Electric built ...

2023, and Vistra left the iconic smokestacks. The demolition was done to make room for expansion efforts. Before the latest fire, the Moss Landing facility had a capacity of 750 MW/ 3,000 MWh.

(Doug Duran/Bay Area News Group) The plant is located on the site of a now-shuttered 1950s-era PG&E Moss Landing natural gas plant visible for its huge smokestacks near Moss Landing Harbor.

As one of the largest lithium battery plants in the world continues to smolder in Moss Landing, activists in another Central Coast town — defined over the last century by its industrial ...