Goulburn community battery fire isolates feeder for ~1,300 customers
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Essential Energys Gibson St community battery in Goulburn, NSW caught fire ~2:40 pm Sep 2; emergency services extinguished it, set an exclusion zone, and a precautionary feeder isolation cut power to about 1,300 customers until ~4:30 pm. Community-scale BESS near residences is no longer theoretical for underwriters—expect short-duration BI, exclusion zones, and public-perception spillover onto nearby renewables siting debates.