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Aps energy storage system explosion

A little after 8:00 p.m. on April 19, 2019, a captain with the Peoria, Ariz., fire department’s Hazmat unit, opened the door of a container filled with more than 10,000 energized lithium-ion battery cells, part of a utility-scale storage system that had been deployed two years earlier by the local utility, Arizona Public Service. [pdf]