Q. What burns hotter than a disco inferno?
A. Fire in a battery energy storage system designed to store electricity from intermittent sources such as wind and solar.
Both Goleta and Nipomo have these battery energy storage facilities and Lompoc may soon have one too; Morro Bay may have dodged the bomb, er bullet. What was once the largest battery energy s…
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