Battery cabin fire at Hainan agri-PV storage station

May 2024Published 29 Oct 2026Responsible editor: Chief Editor

SignificantThermal / fireProvisionalNext update 29 Oct70 MW

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What happened

A fire broke out on 26 May 2024 in a lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery prefabricated cabin at a 70 MW agricultural photovoltaic (agri-PV) plus storage station in a city in Hainan, China. No casualties were reported. A fire-investigation analysis published by BJX on 13 November 2024 attributes ignition to a short circuit in a distribution box under a battery cluster. This entry is based on the headline and feed summary only; the full article could not be retrieved, so the response, the extent of damage, any downtime and the operator are not recorded.

Contributing factors

According to the fire-investigation analysis as summarised in the feed, ignition was attributed to a short circuit in a distribution box under a battery cluster. No other contributing factors are reported.

Lessons learned

Treat distribution boxes and cabling beneath battery clusters as a short-circuit risk and include them in routine inspection.
Provide cluster-level fault detection and isolation so that a short circuit can be contained before it ignites a battery cabin.
After any thermal event in a prefabricated cabin, commission a full fire-investigation analysis and share its findings with other operators of hybrid sites.

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

Source

m.bjx.com.cn

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