Products: n/a. Risk band: Elevated
RobotRisk index 33.7/100 (severity- and time-weighted incidents) · ranked 3 of 7 among Energy storage companies with incidents (227 tracked).
Analyst brief
The record contains four entries spanning 2019-2022: two overheating malfunctions, one fire rated as well-managed by the vendor's own response team, and the 2019 APS McMicken explosion that injured four firefighters. Severity is mixed, with three moderate events and one severity-4 incident; there is no fatality on record. Fluence's index of 33.7 ranks 3 of 7 companies in Energy storage with incident history. The pattern is press-driven, arising from grid-scale battery storage deployments rather than a single regulatory action, with the dominant failure mode being thermal/overheating events in large-format lithium installations. No incidents are recorded after 2022 in this data.
Risk index
33.7/100RobotRisk index
23.5/100Median index across the 7 Energy storage companies with incident history (227 tracked, 220 with none)
3 of 7Rank in Energy storage (of 7 with incident history)