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What Everyone Gets Wrong About Battery Fires

2026-07-10 · 08:38 UTC ·Modo Energy ·0 min read

Brief

What Everyone Gets Wrong About Battery Fires (video presentation) features Daniel Sherlock-Burke, Director of Asset Management, summarizing a joint EPRI study that traced BESS fires to root causes: just 11% start with cell faults, while the majority stem from operations and integration failures. The tutorial-style briefing warns that rushed commissioning for early revenue greatly increases risk and emphasizes procedural and integration fixes.

Why it matters

Only 11% of BESS (battery energy storage system) fire incidents begin with a cell fault, according to a joint EPRI study cited by Daniel Sherlock-Burke.

Key details

  • Most root causes are operational and integration failures—issues during commissioning, controls, and system integration—and these are fixable through better procedures and not compressing commissioning timelines.
Source evidence

Only 11% of BESS fire incidents start with a cell fault. The other root causes? Operations and integration - and both are fixable.

Daniel Sherlock-Burke, Director of Asset Management, breaks down what a joint EPRI study found when tracing battery storage fires back to their actual root cause — and why squeezing the commissioning timeline for revenue is the riskiest move an operator can make.

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Channel: Modo Energy
Published: 2026-07-10
Video URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N39XQJqR4j4