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Percy Best Best says:
Since the cause of the Summerside fire was from the heavy driving rain intruding into the battery containers, I do wonder why they did not put an open sided canopy system over all of the battery packs and install many of their solar panels on top, like a large flat topped building would have.
It would be a much more efficient way to utilize land than they did with the independent, open to the weather installation.
It would have provided a basically dry enclosure for the battery packs similar to the canopies at gas stations and this fire event may not have occurred.
Mike says:
I see your point – however, the batteries have to be enclosed in a weather tight, temperature controlled environment much like a shipping container (heating, cooling, ventilation) to a sweet spot of 70F. The Battery failure occurs when that temperature is not maintained. When they discovered the failure they first had to isolate it from the rest of the enclosures. When it starts to burn it can’t be extinguished – water doesn’t work. Foaming it to smother it doesn’t work. It doesn’t need air to burn as it’s self consuming. If you could safely lift it with a cherry picker and drop it into a deep pool, it’d keep burning. So plume monitoring and collection of contaminated water is about all they can do. The temp can reach 1000 F – explosion can occur"
I guess nobody’s paying attention to the current BESS incident happening at the solar farm in Summerside, PEI? Toxic plume. Shelter in place, voluntary evacuation? This is real. People need to understand all the parameters of any technology- conventional or emerging.https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/pei-summerside-solar-farm-fire-school-cancelled-9.7336769