Governor of New York Wants BESS Working Group After Third Big Battery Storage Fire in a Month.7/30/2023 The New York Battery Energy Storage fire connected with the solar farm continues to burn. This makes the third BESS fire in the state in a month. This article mentions the source of the fire is the own energy company’s faulty equipment. Now the Governor of New York is issuing an emergency task force to address these BESS fires. 
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 Today's news has more info on the BESS fire at the Solar Farm in upstate NY that is still burning: ABC50 NOW POTENTIALLY TOXIC FIRE AT LYME SOLAR FARM STILL ONGOING by: Isabella Colello Posted: Jul 28, 2023 / 07:24 AM EDT Updated: Jul 28, 2023 / 09:43 AM EDT CHAUMONT, N.Y. (WWTI) — The Village of Lyme was in distress Thursday night. At 5 p.m. on July 27, the Jefferson County Director of Fire and Emergency Management Joseph Plummer issued a shelter-in-place order in the town of Lyme. At the time, fire units were working to control a fire at a solar farm on County Route 179 in the town of Lyme. A shelter-in-place was issued for those living within a one-mile radius of the farm. The shelter-in-place was lifted at 9:20 p.m., however at the time, Plummer confirmed that fire operations would continue to be ongoing through Friday, July 28. Governor Kathy Hochul also released the following statement on the fire: GOVERNOR KATHY HOCHUL“A large battery fire in Jefferson County has caused significant damage and is emitting large amounts of smoke that may pose health risks. I have directed all necessary State agencies to provide assistance to local and county officials, and have deployed State personnel from the Department of Environmental Conservation and the Office of Fire Prevention and Control to the site.“I urge all members of the local community to follow public health guidance to protect themselves and their families, and avoid exposure to smoke or other toxins. We will continue monitoring developments out of Jefferson County and are committed to helping this community address the ongoing situation.” Motorists are encouraged to use caution in this area until fire the fire is under control. The link above is a database of all documented BESS ( Battery Energy Storage System) fires since 2019. There are 50 large fires in the database. Three of them were in the last month and were LVP Battery fires which are supposedly safer.  Solar Farm fire in Upstate New York Sends Possible Toxic Smoke Billowing into Surrounding Community7/28/2023 Yesterday’s news!! 7/27/23
Another battery energy storage system (BESS) fire, this time connected to a solar farm. “Solar farm fire in Upstate New York sends possible toxic smoke billowing into surrounding community” JULY 27, 2023 / 10:52 PM / CBS NEWS New York Gov. Kathy Hochul issued an advisory Thursday night due to potentially toxic smoke billowing from a battery fire at a solar farm burning near the Canadian border. CBS affiliate WWNY-TV reports that the fire broke out at about 1 p.m. Eastern time at a solar farm in the Jefferson County town of Lyme, located on Lake Ontario. In a statement, Hochul said that the "large battery fire" had "caused significant damage and is emitting large amounts of smoke that may pose health risks." Residents within a mile of the facility were told to shelter in place, WWNY reported. Video footage showed heavy flames and smoke rising hundreds of feet in the air.  This article is talking about a NextEra Battery Storage system that caught fire in May of this year. NextEra ( aka Corby) has also been trying to work with City of Vacaville a couple years ago to place a BESS on N. Meridian Road but was denied a zoning change. Roads Closed, Trains Halted Over 'Smoldering Battery' May 31, 2023 UPDATE, 2:30 p.m.: South Fork Wind released a statement Wednesday afternoon saying that it had evacuated contractors working at its new Cove Hollow Road substation when it learned about the battery-station fire.  They let this battery energy storage system burn out. This fire was in an industrial area, NOT near homes. The businesses were eventually evacuated as it continued to burn. "Fire smolders at Chandler battery storage facility nearly two weeks later" By Amy Cutler Published: Apr. 29, 2022 at 10:04 PM PDT CHANDLER, AZ (3TV/CBS 5) – A fire at a battery storage facility has been burning for nearly two weeks. As firefighters monitored the situation, businesses within a quarter-mile were urged to evacuate Friday. That order ended around 7 p.m. To read the entire article click the button below:  “The greatest lesson is these high-capacity batteries have such amazing thermal capacity--our traditional firefighting measures will not work. " “It’s a miracle all of them are alive,” said Bryan Jeffries, president of the 7,000-member Professional Firefighters of Arizona and a captain with the Mesa Fire Department. The Surprise APS facility event was a powerful, painful lesson. “The bottom line for us is sustainable energy is growing and it’s here to stay. The reality is we are going to be dealing with (fires at) these energy storage places that use high-capacity batteries. This is all new and emerging technology,” Jeffries said. “It’s not like rushing into a fire—an offensive approach. This is going to have to be a far more defensive approach,” the union president said. “It’s a whole new animal. We’re going to find these all over the place, (from) small versions in people’s garages storing solar power to massive ones.” To continue reading here is the entire article: The latest fire at California’s Moss Landing battery complex was contained and didn’t cause any injuries, but it still highlights the need for better safety systems at storage facilities.
The biggest grid battery complex in the U.S. is also the most fire-prone. The latest fire ignited in the wee hours of Tuesday, September 20 at utility PG&E’s Elkhorn plant in the coastal town of Moss Landing, California. The Tesla-supplied battery plant sits at a utility substation right next door to the Moss Landing battery plant, owned by electric generating company Vistra, which suffered two fires of its own in the last year and had to shut down for months. Monterey County confirmed that last week’s fire affected only one Tesla Megapack enclosure, and it was contained by the evening of the same day. Nevertheless, the incident locked down a stretch of California’s iconic Highway 1, and triggered warnings to local residents “to keep windows closed and turn off ventilation systems” pending testing for hazardous emissions. Local press covered the economic impacts of the shelter-in-place order, and the Santa Cruz Sentinel editorial board called the incident a “stark reminder of new technology risks. To read the rest of the article, click on the button below:  These pictures was taken of Moss Landing in Monterey County CA during the September 2022 fire that broke out at the Battery Energy Storage. This was the 3rd fire in 3 years and was a Tesla Megapack that caught fire and shut down an 8 mile stretch on Highway 1 and a 4 mile area was told to shelter in place. Residents were instructed to turn off their HVAC system to outside air due the the toxins released. Most of the area was farmland and some businesses, not like the site here that has a large subdivision.   Here is a link to the news report: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PTlqCCMX-0
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