BLUE SPRINGS, Missouri | May 2024: Fike Corporation, a global manufacturer and supplier of industrial hazard protection, has announced a partnership with Heriot-Watt University to both protect its rooftop energy storage system from lithium battery fires and to add program curriculum around this lithium ion battery fire suppression and thermal management system, Fike Blue. Dubai’s largest international university, Heriot-Watt University…

By Josh Batz, Fike Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing In the early hours of May 15, 2024, a devastating fire tore through a lithium-ion battery energy storage facility in Otay Mesa, just outside San Diego. The blaze has left the community reeling and searching for answers. As details emerge, one thing is becoming increasingly clear: this tragedy could…

Battery fires within energy storage systems (ESS’s) aren’t as rare as one might think. The reason they are often underpublicized and, fortunately, there haven’t been more tragedies is because ESS’s are often installed away from residential or commercial areas.  However, with the increased efforts in renewable energy production and therefore the exponential deployment of ESS’s, these units will no longer be…

Battery fires within energy storage systems (ESS’s) aren’t as rare as one might think.  The reason they are often underpublicized and, fortunately, there haven’t been more tragedies (such as the four critically injured firefighters in Surprise, AZ in 2019), is because ESS’s are often installed away from residential or commercial areas.  However, with the ongoing adoption of renewable energy production,…

Fike Corporation, a global leader in industrial safety solutions and manufacturer of the first third-party tested solution proven to stop thermal runaway, Fike BlueTM, announced it is now accepting battery and energy storage system manufacturers into the Fike BHA (Battery Hazard Analysis ) Program.  A Fike BHA determines and validates the protection approach using Fike Blue as the thermal management…