Solar container power station burns down

The blaze erupted at the Moss Landing Power Plant, which holds tens of thousands of lithium batteries used for storing solar power. As towering flames and thick black smoke filled the air, authorities ordered about 1,500 residents in the nearby Moss Landing and Elkhorn Slough areas. Although the flames were extinguished in a few days, the metaphorical smoke is still clearing. A state of emergency has been declared in Monterey County on California's scenic Central Coast over a major fire at a. The fire at a facility operated by Vistra Corporation, an electricity company that helps supply energy to the power grid, has closed schools and roads and forced the evacuation of more than 1,000 Moss Landing residents as it sends up a plume of smoke, authorities said.