A Reno-based technology company secured a multimillion-dollar federal contract to help with a major battery cleanup operation in California.

American Battery Technology Company will manage cleanup of thousands of damaged battery modules as part of a $30 million contract that will be overseen by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

The cleanup — described by the EPA as “the largest lithium-ion battery cleanup in agency history" — stems from a Jan. 16 fire that flared up at a 300-megawatt battery energy storage facility at Moss Landing just northwest of Monterey, California.

The Moss Landing 300 building, which is owned by Texas-based retail electricity and power generation company Vistra, burned for several days until Jan. 18 and saw another flareup on Feb. 18. The facility containe

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