Wow! Media covered THESE fires up??!!-----The Unreported Story Of Grid Scale Battery Fires

The geniuses who are planning New York’s energy future think that they can make intermittent wind and solar generators work to power the electrical grid by the simple device of providing some battery storage.  - Francis Menton 

• It turned out that the big problem was that these facilities were subject to large and dangerous fires on a regular basis. 

In some cases the same facility would catch fire multiple times. 

• That post reported on major fires in California at a site called Valley Center in San Diego County in September 2023, and at another one 
• called Moss Landing south of San Francisco in September 2022. 
• In January 2025, the Moss Landing facility had another major fire. From the EPA website:
• There were prior fires at the Moss Landing facility in September 2021 and February 2022.
• Back here in New York, my March 2024 post reported on no fewer than three major fires at grid battery storage facilities in this state that had taken place during 2023...

Might you have the idea that these fires are becoming less frequent over time? 

If so, that’s only because these fires are one of those things — like the Somali welfare fraud in Minnesota — that the liberal media just don’t choose to report. 

• It turns out that the Convergent Energy facility in Warwick, New York had another big fire just last week. From Etica AG, December 22...