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Community Public Forum · September 30, 2026Can you guarantee a battery fire will not happen?
No. Batteries can overheat in a chain reaction called thermal runaway. Early projects, built with older designs and chemistries before current fire standards, had more problems. The Electric Power Research Institute keeps a public database of failures at battery sites. It shows failures per unit of energy installed fell about 99 percent between 2018 and 2025, and the 2023 rate was comparable to the failure rate of utility transformers. The batteries proposed here use lithium iron phosphate, which has no cobalt or nickel. The U.S. Tesla Megapack fires recorded in EPRI's public failure database involved earlier systems with nickel-based chemistry. None involved lithium iron phosphate, the chemistry proposed here. That chemistry is safer, not safe. Each unit has built-in fire detection and automatic shutdown. These lower the risk, but they do not remove it. That is why the Emergency Action Plan matters.
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Can you guarantee a battery fire will not happen? Individual reply: not confirmed. Consideration: not recorded. Design change: not confirmed.
