Battery storage incidents recorded in the United States, with what happened, the contributing factors and the lessons, each with its sources.
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Firefighters from Folsom Fire Department, El Dorado Hills Fire Department and Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District responded to a structure fire on the 100 block of Loughridge Way in Folsom. Crews found heavy smoke inside the residence and traced the fire to...
On Monday evening at the Terra-Gen Energy Storage System in Valley Center, the emergency management system detected a smoke alarm in one battery storage unit. The Valley Center Fire Department and the San Diego County Hazardous Materials Division responded...
A cable short-circuited at the Caballero battery energy storage system (BESS) facility in Nipomo, California, shortly after 11 a.m. on a Monday morning, triggering an automatic safety shutdown that took the facility offline. Firefighters, including CAL FIRE,...
The record behind each entry: the manufacturer, integrator and operator, root cause, failure mode, downtime, losses and every source.
On 9 January 2026, around 4:15pm, an explosion occurred near a transformer at ENGIE's Sierra Battery Storage facility near Chinese Camp in Tuolumne County, California. The Tuolumne County Fire Department initially reported the explosion as involving...
A fire was reported in the early hours at an outdoor lithium-ion battery energy storage unit operated by Tesla that supplies power to a bank of around 20 electric vehicle chargers in the car park of Creekside Marketplace, a shopping centre in San Marcos,...
A short local report says that, on a Wednesday night, firefighters in Mission, Texas, responded to a fire at a battery storage facility. The report does not name the site or the operator. Authorities gave no further details on injuries, the cause, or how much...
A fire broke out at Vistra's 300-megawatt battery energy storage facility in Moss Landing, California, during ongoing cleanup and demolition work following a major fire at the site in January 2025. By noon on the day of the incident, officials said there was...
In 2026, a fire was reported involving a battery storage unit at a residential property in a city in the western United States. Local authorities are reported to have issued a temporary shelter-in-place order for nearby residents while emergency responders...
A shed fire behind a home in Visalia, California, was extinguished by the Visalia Fire Department on a Wednesday afternoon. After the flames were out, crews identified a battery energy storage system inside the shed that had entered thermal runaway,...
On 19 December 2025, a fire occurred at the West Warwick 3 Battery Energy Storage Site (28 Church Street), located in Warwick, New York, United States. The facility is operated by Convergent Energy and Power, owned by Warwick Valley BBA, and uses battery...
A fire broke out on 19 December 2025 inside a single battery container at the Church Street Battery Storage Facility in the Village of Warwick, New York. Convergent is reported as the site's operator. The blaze triggered an alarm and activated the site's...
A fire broke out in the evening at the Bolster Substation Battery, a battery storage facility located at a Salt River Project substation in Peoria, Arizona. Flames were visible coming from one of several battery storage containers. Multiple fire departments...
A fire involving two battery storage containers broke out in Desert Center, California, on 17 September 2025. The blaze was reported at about 7:40 a.m. in the 29700 block of Corn Springs Road, according to the Riverside County Fire Department. No injuries...
A fire broke out in a battery storage unit at the Townsite Solar and Storage facility in Boulder City, Nevada, operated and owned by Arevon Energy, with battery systems supplied by Tesla and the plant built by EPC contractor Rosendin. Fire crews arrived...
A fire was reported at 4:33 a.m. at a battery storage facility located at 16208 South Vermont Street, near the border between Los Angeles and Gardena, California. The Los Angeles Fire Department initially took a defensive firefighting approach due to the...
A fire was reported at the Vistra battery energy storage system facility in Moss Landing, California, on the Tuesday night before the report was published on 20 February 2025. Smoke was seen coming from the previously burned section of the Moss 300 building,...
On 16 January 2025, Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) shut down its Elkhorn battery storage facility in Monterey County, California, after its safety protocol equipment detected a fire at an adjacent battery facility owned by Vistra Corp. The PG&E facility did...
In January 2025, a fire broke out during the afternoon in one building of the Moss Landing Energy Storage Facility (Phase 1, MOSS300) in Moss Landing, Monterey County, California, United States, a large grid-scale lithium-ion battery energy storage facility...
A 12News report published on 1 October 2025 carries the headline 'Multiple agencies respond to battery storage fire' and places the incident in Arizona, United States. The report indicates that several emergency response agencies attended a fire at a battery...
PG&E began returning its Elkhorn Battery Energy Storage System at Moss Landing, California to service on 1 June 2025, following an automatic shutdown on 16 January 2025 when the system's infrared fire detection picked up flames from a fire at the neighbouring...
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