Fire reported in a German home with a Senec battery

What happened

In late August, a fire broke out in the basement of a single-family home in Hechingen, southwest Germany. The home housed a Senec battery. The fire service reported that the house was full of smoke when firefighters arrived. After the fire was brought under control and the basement was ventilated, the fire service said an electricity storage unit had caught fire. No one was injured. Senec said the unit was an older model and that a new lithium iron phosphate unit was not affected. The company also said the house was being renovated and that the renovation work could have been a factor. The cause is still being investigated.

Contributing factors

The cause has not been established. Senec noted that ongoing renovation work could have been involved. The source does not state how the fire started.

Lessons learned

1. Home storage already covered by a replacement campaign can still be involved in a fire, so outstanding exchanges should keep being tracked.
2. Until the cause of a house fire is known, nearby renovation work should be treated only as a possible factor, not as a finding.
3. A single residential storage fire should not be read as proof that a particular model failed while the investigation is still open.

More lessons on maintenance, inspection and ageing assets, investigation and fleet-wide checks, from every incident on the register.

Source

ess-news.com