Every battery storage incident in public reporting that describes an explosion or deflagration, with the injuries and the response, each with its sources. Free to read.
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On 15 September 2026, at about 20:30, a basement fire was reported at a house in Mank, in the district of Melk, Austria. The object involved was the energy storage of a photovoltaic installation, with a reported capacity of about 27 kWh and about 4,000...
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 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...
The record behind each entry: the manufacturer, integrator and operator, root cause, failure mode, downtime, losses and every source.
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...
A fire broke out on 5 June in a wooden shed at a single-family home in Bentwisch, near Rostock, Germany. A battery energy storage system installed at the property had overheated before fire crews arrived. While firefighters were working to extinguish the...
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 broke out in the basement of a single-family house in Mchy, in the Książ Wielkopolski commune of Poland. The fire involved batteries of an energy storage system that the owner had built himself. Fire crews from the Śrem professional fire station and...
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...
On 13 June 2024, a fire broke out at a battery energy storage facility co-located with a 100MW solar plant in Baeksu-eup, Yeonggwang-gun, Jeollanam-do, South Korea. The blaze was reported shortly after midday and fire authorities responded with 19 pieces of...
A fire broke out at a lithium-ion battery energy storage system co-located with the Takayanagi Solar Power Plant, Unit 6, operated by Hayashi Energy System in Isa City, Kagoshima, Japan. Neighbours reported white smoke coming from the site. Firefighters could...
A lithium-ion battery energy storage system at the Edwards Sanborn E2 site in Kern County, California, operated by Terra-Gen, experienced a failure incident in February 2024, according to an industry database that tracks stationary battery storage failures....
On the evening of 29 September 2023, an explosion occurred in a lithium-ion battery storage container at the SICA Madras poultry farm in the Peter Maillet district of Saint-Esprit, Martinique. The blast was felt by at least 300 nearby households and blew out...
A fire broke out in a battery storage container holding around nine tonnes of lithium batteries in the Sisjon industrial area of Vastra Frolunda, Gothenburg. The container, which was on wheels, was moved from indoors to outdoors after smoke was detected....
In 2023 a fire broke out in a lithium-ion battery storage container at a co-located solar generation site in Aghione, Haute-Corse, France. The battery system was reported to be at about 95% state of charge at the time. An automatic inert gas suppression...
On 14 February 2023, firefighters were called to an electrical equipment fire at Cyxtera BOS1 in Waltham, Massachusetts. An explosion and arc flash in a battery cabinet damaged that cabinet and adjacent cabinets when panels were blown off. Smoke detectors and...
At about 2 p.m., the fire safety department in the Wernges district was alerted to smoke from a two-family house. When police arrived, local firefighters were already there and could not detect a fire. An explosion had occurred and the home's eastern wall had...
A battery storage container at the River's Edge RV park in Rio Dell, California, exploded on 3 August 2022. The park owner said sealed lead batteries, installed about four years earlier, were a reserve energy source if the park's solar system failed. Public...
A residential battery storage unit exploded in a house in Althengstett, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, on 8 May 2022, according to Blackout News. Homeowners noticed white smoke from the basement and tried to extinguish the burning battery themselves, suffering...
A fire broke out in the energy storage room of a solar power generation facility in Jangseong-gun, Jeollanam-do, South Korea. Emergency services deployed a large number of personnel and vehicles to bring the blaze under control. Officials reported no...
In April 2022, a fire was reported in the morning at the Dorman battery storage facility, a stand-alone, grid-connected lithium-ion battery energy storage facility of a few tens of MWh in Chandler, Arizona, United States, operated by AES. The internal...
Counted from the register on 27 October 2026. The 31 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 | 28 | |
| Electrical | 2 | |
| 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 | 10 | |
| Cell or module | 8 | |
| Suppression system | 3 | |
| Inverter or PCS | 2 | |
| Transformer or switchgear | 1 | |
| Cables and connections | 1 | |
| Not stated | 13 |
| Country | Entries | |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 9 | |
| South Korea | 9 | |
| Germany | 4 | |
| Austria | 1 | |
| Poland | 1 | |
| Spain | 1 | |
| Japan | 1 | |
| Martinique | 1 | |
| Sweden | 1 | |
| France | 1 | |
| China | 1 | |
| United Kingdom | 1 |
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The register holds 31 battery storage explosion entries from public reporting, 2018 to 2026, in 12 countries. 28 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 (10), cell or module (8), suppression system (3). 13 of the 31 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 (9), South Korea (9), Germany (4) have the most entries. 1 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 storage explosion 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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