Fire destroys battery storage building at solar site in Daesan-eup, Seosan-si
June 2025Published 7 Sept 2026Responsible editor: Chief Editor
- Where
- solar site at Gi-eun-ri, Daesan-eup, Seosan-si, South Korea
- What
- fire in battery storage room destroyed building and part of solar array
- Injuries
- None reported
- Response
- fire service with tens of personnel and multiple vehicles, extinguished after ten and a half hours
- Cause
- under investigation
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What happened
In June 2025, a fire broke out during the afternoon in the battery energy storage room of a solar photovoltaic generation site at Gi-eun-ri, Daesan-eup, Seosan-si, Chungcheongnam-do, South Korea. The single storey storage building, constructed with sandwich panel walls and a panel roof, was destroyed, and part of the adjacent solar array was also burned. The fire service attended with tens of personnel and multiple pump, command and chemical response vehicles, and the fire was reported as fully extinguished after roughly ten and a half hours, continuing through the night.
No injuries were reported and the fire did not spread to nearby homes. The ignition point and cause remained under investigation by the fire authorities at the time of reporting.
Contributing factors
Not reported. The reporting outlet noted that lithium-ion chemistry can contribute to high temperature and arc related escalation, but no specific cause had been confirmed at the time of publication.
Lessons learned
- Sandwich panel walls and roof in a battery storage building burn readily, so operators should use non-combustible or fire-rated systems instead.
- Battery storage next to a solar array can spread fire into generation assets, so operators should set and check separation distances.
- A battery storage fire can last many hours, so operators should pre-plan with the fire service for sustained access, water and media.
More lessons on spacing, layout and fire spread, fire suppression and firefighting, from every incident on the register.
Not yet known
- Exact cause and ignition point
- Battery model, chemistry and age
- Cost of damage and site downtime
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Source
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Published 2026-09-07. Written from public reporting. Descriptive, not investigative. See the data accuracy disclaimer.
