Evacuations lifted for more than 1,000 after fire

Evacuations were lifted Friday night for people near an ongoing fire that erupted Thursday at one of the world''s largest battery

2025 Aug 09

VRB_SafetyReport_V2.0_Final

This paper will compare, at a high level, the safety considerations for lithium ion batteries and vanadium redox flow batteries and how the systems function and behave; it will also review

2025 Apr 24

Evacuations lifted for more than 1,000 after fire erupts in California

Evacuations were lifted Friday night for people near an ongoing fire that erupted Thursday at one of the world''s largest battery storage plants in the northern half of California.

2024 Sep 06

FIRE HAZARDS OF BATTERY ENERGY STORAGE

In the United States, a large investigation into a fire and explosion at Arizona Public Service''s 2-MW Surprise Battery Storage System was launched in 2019. That event injured a team of

2025 Mar 26

Chemical Hazard Assessment of Vanadium–Vanadium Flow Battery

The primary focus of this study is directed to the diverse gases related to vanadium electrolyte, when considering incidents such as overcharging (when the battery capacity is exceeded,

2024 Aug 21

Explosion Control of Energy Storage Systems

Energy storage systems are growing worldwide. Explore the challenges of explosion protection for ESS systems.

2025 Sep 28

Battery Energy Storage Systems: Main Considerations for Safe

On May 15, 2024, Gateway Energy Storage Facility in San Diego, California, experienced a BESS fire with continued flare-ups for seven days following the fire. The facility

2024 Mar 23

IEP Technologies | BESS Battery Energy Storage Systems Fire

The leading cause of fire and explosion inside a BESS enclosures is the release and ignition of combustible vapors from an overheating battery.

2025 Jan 22

Battery Energy Storage Systems: Main

On May 15, 2024, Gateway Energy Storage Facility in San Diego, California, experienced a BESS fire with continued flare-ups for

2025 May 10

Bridging the fire protection gaps: Fire and explosion risks in grid

Figure 1 shows this increasing trend in global battery deployment and directly plots the battery failure rate per deployed GW of battery energy. This graph shows an overall

2024 Jun 19

NFPA 855: Improving Energy Storage System Safety

855 allows the AHJ to waive many of the prescriptive measures. The LSFT, which is new for 2026, verifies that complete combustion of one enclosure will not cause thermal runaway in.

2024 Jun 09

IEP Technologies | BESS Battery Energy Storage

The leading cause of fire and explosion inside a BESS enclosures is the release and ignition of combustible vapors from an overheating battery.

2025 Apr 02

Explosion Control of Energy Storage Systems

Energy storage systems are growing worldwide. Explore the challenges of explosion protection for ESS systems.

2024 Jan 16

Bridging the fire protection gaps: Fire and

Figure 1 shows this increasing trend in global battery deployment and directly plots the battery failure rate per deployed GW of

2024 Jan 07

A California Battery Plant Burned. Residents Have Gotten Sick,

Last month, a battery-storage plant went up in flames and burned for days, prompting the evacuation of more than 1,000 residents and shutting down local schools.

2025 Jul 25