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Electric power, grid storage and utility operators, including battery energy storage sites. Sector index 1.7/100 · 16 incidents · 7 companies with incidents of 682 tracked.

Robot types involved

Battery energy storage system 16

Most-involved companies

LG Energy SolutionFluenceTesla EnergyBlue SolutionsSamsung SDIEnerSysEos Energy Enterprises

Incidents

16 of 16 incidents
SevDateCompanyTypeLocationIncidentSource
S323 Nov 2025Eos Energy Enterprises fire Turtle Creek, PA, USAFire at Eos Energy's Turtle Creek, Pennsylvania manufacturing facility · 1 manufacturing facility, large emergency response WPXI
S3~Nov 2025Tesla Energy recall USATesla recalls Powerwall 2 AC battery systems over fire/burn risk · ~10,500 units U.S. Consumer Product Sa
S323 Sep 2025Tesla Energy fire Boulder City, NV, USATesla Megapack battery fire burns for hours at Boulder City solar facility KTNV
S316 Sep 2025Tesla Energy recall AustraliaTesla Powerwall 2 battery recall in Australia over overheating/fire risk 7NEWS
S527 Jul 2025LG Energy Solution fatality Holland, MI, USAWorker killed in accident at LG Energy Solution plant in Holland, Michigan MLive
S416 Jan 2025LG Energy Solution fire Moss Landing, CA, USAMoss Landing 300MW BESS fire (Vistra) destroys facility using LG Energy Solution cells · 300MW / tens of thousands of battery cells, 1 facility destroyed Utility Dive
S205 Sep 2024Fluence fire Escondido, CA, USASDG&E Escondido, California BESS fire 'well managed' by Fluence-supported response · 1 site, minimal impact, no injuries reported Energy-Storage.News
S2~Apr 2022Fluence malfunction Chandler, AZ, USAOverheating event at AES 10MW Chandler, Arizona storage facility · 10MW facility, 1 event, no injuries Fluence Energy SEC filin
S204 Sep 2021Fluence malfunction —Overheating event at 300MW Fluence-supplied storage facility · 300MW facility, 1 event, no injuries Fluence Energy SEC filin
S325 May 2021LG Energy Solution recall —LG Energy Solution recalls home/ESS batteries after thermal events, one injury · US residential ESS recall, ~$350M cost EnergyTrend
S322 Feb 2021Blue Solutions recall GermanyMercedes-Benz eCitaro Buses With Solid-State Batteries Recalled · multiple eCitaro buses InsideEVs
S306 Feb 2020Samsung SDI regulatory ESS facility, South Jeolla Province, South KoreaSamsung SDI batteries implicated in South Korea government ESS fire probe · part of a 27-fire national ESS incident cluster The Korea Times
S3~Oct 2019LG Energy Solution fire —South Korea ESS fires linked predominantly to LG Chem/LG Energy Solution battery cells · 17 of 27 national ESS fire incidents ETNews / Korea Times
S319 Sep 2019EnerSys fire Richmond, KY, USAFire at EnerSys Richmond, Kentucky motive-power battery plant · 1 manufacturing facility, ~$46.1M insured loss EnerSys SEC 8-K filing
S419 Apr 2019LG Energy Solution fire Surprise, AZ, USAAPS McMicken (Surprise, AZ) battery explosion injures four firefighters · 1 site, 4 firefighters injured IEEE Spectrum
S4~Apr 2019Fluence fire Surprise, AZ, USAAPS McMicken (Surprise, AZ) battery explosion injures four firefighters · 1 site, 4 firefighters injured Energy-Storage.News
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