Explosion in model house: severe damage caused by photovoltaic memory!

Explosion in model house: severe damage caused by photovoltaic memory!

In a shocking incident on February 20, 2025, a residential building in Schleswig-Holstein was badly damaged by a massive explosion when a photovoltaic home memory in a model house in Schönberg probably caught fire. The force of the detonation was so huge that a complete outer wall was torn out, which caused the fire brigade to lock the area over a large area. Fortunately, the residents were on vacation at the time of the incident, so that nobody was injured. The event reported by the Schönberg volunteer fire brigade led to the static conditions of the house to be checked and a demolition of the badly damaged building was considered, as pv-magazine.de reported.

But not only in Schleswig-Holstein there were dramatic incidents with battery storage. In Carinthia, Austria, a 34-year-old man suffered serious injuries when a lithium-ion battery, which he had parked in his living room, began to smoke for previously unknown reasons and finally exploded. When trying to promote the dangerous device outside, it detonated, causing the patio door to be torn out of its anchoring. The seriously injured man was immediately flown to the state hospital in Graz with a rescue helicopter. The Arriach volunteer fire brigade was quickly deployed to carry out the extinguishing work, while the fire investigators of the State Criminal Center Carinthia examine the causes of the accident, as

These incidents throw a sobering light on the safety of battery storage in residential buildings. While the determination continues in both cases, one question remains: How safe are these systems in our households?