A fire outbreak on Tuesday at PG&E Corp’s Monterey county-based energy storage facility that uses batteries made by Tesla Inc has shut down part of Highway 1 in California.
The company said it was working with firefighters to stop the fire from spreading. The incident has caused no electrical outage for customers, it added.
The electric utility company said on detecting the issue the safety systems automatically disconnected the battery storage facility from the electrical grid and that no onsite personnel was injured due to the fire.
California’s Department of Transportation said a part of the highway was closed due to the battery fire and advised motorists to take an alternate route.
