Moss Landing Exploding Battery Plant

An important CASI Live Event on the fire disasters at the Moss Landing Battery Storage Plant will be held on Wednesday, October 8, 5PM, at Wave Street Studios in Monterey.

As you may know, the California Central Coast fell from grace on 1/16/25 when a half-billion dollar “clean energy investment” self-immolated in Moss Landing. This epochal disaster happened because Vistra Corp’s Battery Electric Storage System (BESS) went into spontaneous “thermal runaway”, which is what BESS plants do.

The world’s largest BESS basically went into melt-down in the world’s worst place: Eden’s Gate, aka Moss Landing. This massive battery fire burned white hot for days, incinerating ten million pounds of lithium and heavy metals, with the toxic plume spreading across the Salinas Valley, as far east as Gilroy and as far north as Santa Cruz.

Briefing Agenda

CASI scientists and engineers will be joined by locals from the BESS Evacuation Zone. These speakers will cover five essential topics about the Moss Landing BESS Disaster.

1. Lived Experiences: Here from those near Ground Zero about the health and other impacts of the disaster.

2. Financial Disaster: Get a forensic accounting assessment of the massive public funding that went to Vistra Corporation, owner of the blown BESS.

3. Biological Disaster: Get a scientific overview of the disaster’s toxic aftermath for the people, animals and soils of the Salinas Valley and beyond.

4. Land Use Disaster: See a visualization of California’s land use for power generation and storage in California’s energy grid, including for Battery Storage.

5. Political Disaster: See a survey of responses from elected officials, both prior to the fire and after. Hear about the many BESS plants currently planned for California and the movement to stop them.

Speakers will include Dr. Michael Hogan and David Hurwitz. Hogan is an eminent scientist across a range of disciplines, including physics and biology. He is also CASI Founder and Chairman. Hurwitz is a local engineering and economics researcher. They will be joined by survivors of the disaster from in and around the Salinas Valley.

Your Takeaways

You will come away with an essential understanding of the greatest California disaster that nobody talks about. Importantly, you will also learn about the many BESS plants planned for elsewhere in California RIGHT NOW, and the movement to stop them. Plans exist for more exploding battery plants in Monterey, San Luis Obispo and Santa Cruz Counties.

Best of all, you’ll have the opportunity to connect with fellow citizens from the Central Coast, maybe even discover how to help in some small way. Learning the truth about battery plants could become the best thing you’ll do all year.

Complimentary appetizers and non alcoholic drinks will be served ,and a cash bar will offer any other drink for the serious imbibers.

 Early registration is $20 and $25 after September 26th