APS and Fluence Investigating Explosion at Arizona Energy Storage Facility

GreenTech Media:  Fluence has dispatched a team of experts to help utility Arizona Public Service determine what caused an explosion at one of its grid-scale battery facilities. The explosion on Friday reportedly left four firefighters injured, including three who were sent to a burn center.

Firefighters responded to a call on April 19 after smoke was seen rising from APS’ McMicken Energy Storage facility, one of two identical 2-megawatt / 2 megawatt-hour grid-scale batteries the utility installed in 2017 in Phoenix’s growing West Valley region.

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