They put off huge quantities of toxic gases. This was a Lithium Iron Phosphate battery facility. It is on Prince Edward Island in Canada. A battery fire at a P.E.I. solar farm is finally out. Canada may not be ready for more
The battery storage facility was 2 years old.
The solar farm battery fire in Summerside, [Prince Edward Island], is now deemed out, but fire experts say what happened there should concern communities far beyond the Island.
The blaze at the Summerside Sunbank is believed to have started on Labour Day, Sept. 7, in a battery bank.
According to the StacheD video below, the fire burned for 14 days. That is a long time for a local fire department to have people on site.
As also noted in the video, a lot of these facilities are catching fire in the first few years of their existence. If they are failing when they are only 2 or 3 years old, what will it be like in 10 years?
This is the StacheD Training video BESS Fire on Prince Edward Island: LFP (LiFePO₄) Fire
The Centipede [system name] also uses lithium iron phosphate, LFP. One of the biggest misconceptions I hear is LFP is safe and it can't go into thermal runaway. Is it safer? Yes. Is it harder to get into thermal runaway? Also, yes. But once it goes into thermal runaway, you can get fire. But typically, it likes to just release flammable gases. So, the explosion hazard is significantly more.
So you trade risk of fire, for risk of explosion. Great.
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