Every battery storage incident in public reporting that names a container, enclosure or cabinet: fires, thermal runaway and the response, each with its sources. Free to read.
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Evacuation orders were issued on 22 September after a lithium ion battery fire broke out at the Metropolitan Water District facility, 3000 block of Wheeler Avenue in La Verne. The fire involved a battery energy storage system near a solar panel field on the...
A fire broke out at around 6:25am on 21 September 2026 in an outdoor container housing an energy storage system (ESS) at the KEPCO Power ICT Daejeon Center in Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, South Korea. The ESS is located on the premises of KEPCO's Electric Power...
Emergency responders were called to a commercial fire alarm at a solar energy facility equipped with a battery energy storage system in Douglas, Massachusetts, after smoke was observed coming from a single battery cabinet. On arrival, crews confirmed the...
The record behind each entry: the manufacturer, integrator and operator, root cause, failure mode, downtime, losses and every source.
A fire broke out at a lithium-ion battery energy storage system housed in four shipping containers in Bautzen, Germany, in July 2026. The site had a stated capacity of 1.5 MW. Firefighters could not directly extinguish the fire due to the characteristics of...
Emergency services were called to the Battery Box battery energy storage system on Pinhoe Road, Exeter, Devon, after smoke was seen coming from the unit. The system had been recently installed on leased land and connects to the electricity grid to store...
At 05:21 on Friday 1 May 2026, Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service was called to a fire involving a battery storage container at the Rufford Colliery battery energy storage system (BESS) on Colliery Lane, Rainworth, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom. The...
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,...
According to a police and fire service press release reprinted by Presse Augsburg, a battery storage unit for a photovoltaic system caught fire on a Monday evening in Obernzell, Germany, releasing gases described as hazardous to health. The unit was stored in...
A fire was reported in 2026 at a grid-scale battery energy storage facility in India. The only material available is a news headline and feed summary, from which it appears that the operator issued a public clarification denying that storage containers had...
A localised fire broke out at ACME Solar Holdings' Suryodaya Battery Energy Storage System facility in Pokhran, India. The fire affected four Power Conversion System (PCS) units and was extinguished by the site's in-house fire safety team following...
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 at a battery energy storage system co-located with a solar power facility in Angang-eup, Gyeongju-si, Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea, destroying eight cabinet-type lithium-ion battery units, manufactured by LG Energy Solution, and the...
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 broke out in a battery storage container located near a residential facility in Almelo, Netherlands. The fire developed into a large blaze with significant smoke production, prompting the fire service to scale up its response due to the possible...
In March 2025, in the mid afternoon, a fire was reported at the Cirencester Hybrid Solar Farm, a hybrid site on Witpit Lane, Preston, near Cirencester, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom, operated by Gridserve, combining ground mounted solar generation with a...
In 2025 a fire broke out in a single containerised battery unit at Thurrock BESS, a large battery energy storage project in East Tilbury, Essex, England, being developed by Statera Energy, that was still under construction and not yet operational. The fire...
An explosion and fire occurred in a containerised lithium-ion battery energy storage system colocated with a solar photovoltaic installation at the Port of Gandia solar and storage installation in Port of Gandia, Valencia, Spain, an installation integrated by...
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 single 40 foot lithium-ion battery energy storage container, roughly three years old and used for peak shaving, caught fire at a commercial site in Brantford, Ontario, Canada. The fire department attended and the cause remained under investigation at the...
Counted from the register on 27 October 2026. The 53 entries whose own reporting names this, of 186 battery storage entries in all. A mention in the reporting, not a finding of fault.
As the register classes each entry, from its sources.
| What happened | Entries | |
|---|---|---|
| Thermal / fire | 46 | |
| Electrical | 6 | |
| Other | 1 |
Counted from the words of each entry's own reporting: an entry counts under each part it names, and "Not stated" means the public reporting named none. A mention, not a finding of fault.
| Part named | Entries | |
|---|---|---|
| Rack or enclosure | 53 | |
| Cell or module | 16 | |
| Cables and connections | 5 | |
| Suppression system | 5 | |
| Transformer or switchgear | 3 | |
| Inverter or PCS | 2 |
| Country | Entries | |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 17 | |
| Germany | 6 | |
| United Kingdom | 5 | |
| South Korea | 4 | |
| France | 4 | |
| Netherlands | 3 | |
| China | 3 | |
| India | 2 | |
| Taiwan | 2 | |
| Australia | 2 | |
| Spain | 1 | |
| Canada | 1 | |
| Belgium | 1 | |
| Martinique | 1 | |
| Sweden | 1 |
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The register holds 53 battery container entries from public reporting, 2012 to 2026, in 15 countries. 46 of them are fires or thermal events; the rest are electrical, other and other incidents. Each entry lists its sources.
Where the public reporting names a part, the most common are rack or enclosure (53), cell or module (16), cables and connections (5). 0 of the 53 entries name no part. The register does not guess a cause; where a fire service, regulator or the operator states one, the entry carries it and says who said it.
In the reporting the register has found, United States (17), Germany (6), United Kingdom (5) have the most entries. 5 are in the United Kingdom. That partly reflects where the assets are built and where the press reports on them.
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Public reporting on battery container incidents often names the site but rarely the make, the model or the cause. The register does not guess them. Where a fire service, regulator or the operator states one, the entry carries it and says who said it.
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