Battery storage · United States
Parkwood BESS
Under construction11.6 MWChecked 6 October 2026
The site
- Technology
- Battery storage
- Capacity
- 11.6 MW
- Status
- Under construction
- Operator
- North Carolina El Member Corp
- Location
- Union County, North Carolina, United States
- Expected
- 2026
- Balancing authority
- DUK
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Incidents on the register at this site
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Incidents at battery storage sites in the United States
The register holds 53 incidents at battery storage sites in the United States, 42 of them fires, and 176 worldwide. Counts of incidents in published reporting, not rates.
- Small fire contained at Terra-Gen battery storage in Valley Center
- Lithium-ion battery explosion leads to prolonged thermal event at a US solar and storage site
- Residential battery system prompts extra caution at Folsom house fire
- Home battery reported drained by EV charger during a grid outage
- Firefighters respond to a battery storage fire in Mission, Texas
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Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-860M (Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory). The dataset. The register adds only the incidents and the counts.