The cause of the fire is still unclear
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From pv magazine ESS news place
Batteries in an overseas container caught fire on June 7 at Suncycle’s engineering and testing center in Thuringia, Germany. According to local media reports, it took firefighters more than four hours to extinguish the fire. The damage is estimated at €700,000. The cause is still unclear, but it is suspected that there is a technical defect.
The fire produced significant amounts of smoke before it could finally be extinguished. The district office had asked residents to keep their windows and doors closed and the German federal government’s warning app was activated to inform affected residents.
A local news site reported that firefighters used a grappling hook to open the container doors, cool the batteries with water and ultimately extinguish the fire. The affected container was pulled away from the other battery containers with a tractor to prevent the flames from spreading.
Suncycle has not released any statements or answered press questions about the incident.
The case is strongly reminiscent of a fire in northwest Germany in Neermoor at the end of April this year, in which a container with lithium-ion batteries from Intilion caught fire. The police estimated the damage at the time at 500,000 euros. In this case too, the cause of the fire is still unclear, as an Intilion employee recently confirmed.
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