A seven-year-old boy in Maharashtra’s Vasai area of Palghar district was killed after the electric scooter battery kept in his house exploded, PTI reported. According to police officials, the incident occurred on September 23 in Vasai near Mumbai. The father of deceased had brought the assembled e-scooter from Jaipur and had kept the battery for…
Weymouth Civic Society has raised concerns about potential risk to the community after plans were submitted for a large solar energy plant north of Chickerell. The society said it is “well aware” of the climate emergency and is fully supportive of renewable energy development – but has “severe” concerns about the scale of the proposed plant. As…
As Illinois pushes for more renewable energy, it comes with a fire hazard risk at battery storage centers. A battery storage facility explosion in Arizona hurt eight firefighters. There have been three other fires. The sun doesn’t always shine, and the wind doesn’t always blow, so Illinois’ push for renewable energy means communities need a…
A woman whose partner died in a fire caused by an e-scooter battery has spoken of the tragedy for the first time to warn others about the danger lithium-ion batteries can bring.Tomeka Willis and her partner Blake Whell were in a caravan on a property in Logan Central, Queensland, when a charging e-scooter battery caught…
A FIRE station team has been spreading safety awareness of using batteries that may not be appropriate for your appliance after a ‘near miss’. A spokesperson from Carlisle East Fire Station said that during a recent ‘safe and well’ visit, the occupant of a property brough an ‘extremely near miss’ to the attention of a member of…
According to Delhi Fire Services director Atul Garg, they received a call at 4.23 am about a fire at a four-storey building owned by inverter battery manufacturer Okaya. The structure houses a godown, a factory and the company office. Around 4 am Thursday, a call about a fire was received at a four-storey building in…
Recently Microtek, one of the prominent Inverter manufacturers in India has been sued by an unhappy customer for the fire accident triggered by an inverter/UPS. Times of India, leading newspaper in India have published this interesting story about the Inverter Fire accident. You can read the full article here This is not a joke; inverter/UPS is a common household appliance in India. If…
The ban on the use of diesel generator sets, which has been in place in Delhi-NCR from October 28 onwards, has been lifted. The measures that were in place from October 28 onwards under the ‘very poor’ section of the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) have been lifted. Apart from the ban on diesel gen sets, measures under the…
With the deadline of the ban on diesel gen-sets (DG sets) in the National Capital Region (NCR) closing in, the industry has requested for a year’s extension to enable the transition to clean energy. Very few factories have been able to shift to PNG-based generators, as a comprehensive pipeline network is still underway and supply…
CAQM said these restrictions did not apply to generator sets running on LPG, gas, butane, propane or biogas. This order also did not apply on “emergent and essential projects” such as hospitals Heavy diesel generator sets at a market complex in Gurugram. CAQM said these directions are valid for all areas with a gas infrastructure…
