Dear Mayors, Councilmembers, and Supervisors - I’m a strong supporter of decarbonization, electrification, and grid scale storage. However, as the below article about the Moss Landing grid storage battery fire shows, we can’t trust storage providers to adequately guard against the risk of thermal runaway on their own in their system design, and in assessing facility risk, we also have to consider potential long-term health and environmental impact from battery fires disseminating toxic metals into the air and wetlands as happened at Moss Landing.
If grid storage is proposed in your area, please require newer battery chemistries such as lithium iron phosphate that have lower risk of thermal runaway than lithium ion, and please carefully evaluate the installation design to see how it mitigates the risk of contagion from one battery unit to the next.
Grid storage is the future of emissions reduction. But it needs more competent service providers than Duke Energy and better oversight than Monterey’s county board provided.
Thanks very much,
Eric Krock
755 Ramona Ave, Sunnyvale
mobile 408-836-5230
https://theconversation.com/when-the-worlds-largest-battery-power-plant-caught-fire-toxic-metals-rained-down-wetlands-captured-the-fallout-268848 (https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2ftheconversation.com%2fwhen-the-worlds-largest-battery-power-plant-caught-fire-toxic-metals-rained-down-wetlands-captured-the-fallout-268848%3futm_medium%3dSocial%26utm_source%3dFacebook%23Echobox%3d1764677858&c=E,1,7tP9UEoFGkFA-nfwJ6kFxqTg_rqpEKj0azLvnfq30zBIGQwnxvwpyBVNT9EbPeyjtudQwBMtBhtLUSEl_3EZp0CbLah6F-61LRveaXK5_A,,&typo=1)
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