Boss jailed over deadly fire at South Korea battery plant

A South Korean court has handed a 15-year prison sentence to the boss of a lithium battery maker after a deadly fire last year.

South Korea''s data center fire triggers global scrutiny of lithium-ion

The September 26 incident, triggered when a lithium-ion battery exploded during routine UPS maintenance at the facility in Daejeon, has paralyzed essential government services, including...

South Korea hit by ''digital Pearl Harbor'' as aging LGES battery sparks

A fire triggered by a lithium-ion battery explosion on the evening of Sept. 26 has paralyzed a large swathe of South Korea''s online government services and provoked urgent

Major battery pack fires pose setback to Korean battery makers'' ESS bet

The latest fire—three years after the 2022 “Kakao blackout” spurred calls for stronger safeguards—has reignited debate over whether Korea''s ESS ambitions can advance without

Hwaseong battery factory fire

On 24 June 2024, in Hwaseong, South Korea, a lithium battery factory owned by Aricell caught on fire after several batteries exploded. [1] The fire killed 23 workers and wounded eight more, mostly

BESS Failure Incident Database

BESS: A stationary energy storage system using battery technology. The focus of the database is on lithium ion technologies, but other battery technology failure incidents are included.

Battery blaze at state data center casts shadow over ESS push

The National Fire Agency said Sunday that the blaze at the National Information Resources Service in Daejeon started when lithium-ion batteries caught fire in the facility''s uninterruptible power supply

Gov''t, LGES face scrutiny after state data center fire

LG Energy Solution (LGES) is facing scrutiny after it was revealed that the company supplied the batteries that exploded Friday at the state data center and sparked a fire in a server room.

Why South Korea''s Energy Storage Systems Keep Failing: A

The Alarming March 2025 Fire: 3,852 Modules Lost in 13 Hours On March 9, 2025, a photovoltaic energy storage facility in South Korea''s Gangjin County became ground zero for the country''s latest