Ørsted confirms fire at Carnegie Road battery storage space site

• Danish renewables huge Ørsted has confirmed there has actually been a fire at its 20MW Carnegie Road battery energy storage system (BESS) site in Liverpool.

Merseyside Fire & Rescue Service, local first-responders, claimed that teams were alerted shortly prior to 1am on 15 September as well as showed up to discover a "huge grid battery system container well alight".

The fire service said that it had utilized major jets and ground screens in tackling the fire, asking residents nearby to keep their doors and windows closed as a result of smoke from the occurrence.

The blaze went on for numerous hours, with an update from the solution at 7:30 am noting that although operations at the site had been scaled down, firefighting was continuous, with 2 ground screen systems and also a primary water jet still in use. An additional update at 11:45 am claimed one fire engine was still at the scene, with firefighting still proceeding, although by that phase only one hand-held pump remained in use.

The Carnegie Road project was Ørsted's initial standalone grid-connected battery project, constructed utilizing storage system devices provided by the now-defunct Energy Solutions department of NEC Corporation, housed in 3 containers. The project's conclusion was announced at the start of 2019.

Speaking to Solar Power Portal's sister website Energy-Storage. news, Ørsted provided this statement: "We can validate there has been a fire at our Carnegie Road battery storage space center in Liverpool. This facility does not have irreversible participants of team as well as no-one was on-site at the time of the fire," the spokesperson stated.

" We want to give thanks to the firemans at Merseyside Fire and also Rescue for their fast feedback and also professionalism and reliability in obtaining the fire in control. It is prematurely to hypothesize concerning the reason for the fire but as quickly as we can obtain on-site we will be conducting an immediate review to recognize what has taken place."

Merseyside Fire & Rescue Service additionally said that "an examination will certainly be accomplished".