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LG ESS Battery Division - RESU ESS Home Batteries — fire risk

UK OPSSLow riskFireMar 26, 2021
Photo from the official notice: LG ESS Battery Division - RESU ESS Home Batteries — fire risk
Photo from the official notice: LG ESS Battery Division - RESU ESS Home Batteries — fire risk

Photos from the official notice: UK Office for Product Safety and Standards (GOV.UK) · image rights

Hazard

The ESS Home Batteries can overheat, presenting a risk of fire and emission of harmful smoke/vented gases. The product has been identified as presenting a low risk in accordance with the RAPEX risk assessment methodology.

Remedy

LG ESS are replacing all potentially affected ESS Home Batteries. Further information on the recall can be found at the following link: https://www.lgessbattery.com/eu/home-battery/news-view.lg?blcSn=1257&devonTargetRow=1&devonOrderBy=&searchType=all&s . Consumers and distributors affected by this replacement programme have been notified.

Product recall

Measures taken

  • Recall of product from end users

Product description

Lithium-ion storage batteries installed as part of a residential energy solar panel system (‘ESS Home Batteries’). The ESS Home Batteries are equipped with certain cells manufactured between April 2017 and September 2018, which are potentially linked to specific electrode manufacturing issues that could result in thermal instability resulting in an overheating incident.

What should I do?

If you own this product, stop using it and follow the corrective action above: contact the retailer or supplier for a repair, replacement or refund. This notice was published by the UK Office for Product Safety and Standards.

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