The following notice has been issued by the Office for Product Safety and Standards.

LG ESS Battery Division - RESUESS Home Batteries

Batteries

Alert number
2103-0025

Product type
Electrical appliances and equipment -battery storage cabinet

Product identifiers
Model Numbers: RESU7H_Type R; RESU7H_Type C; RESU10H_Type R; RESU10H_Type C; RESU10; EM048063P3S5; EM048126P3S7; and EM048126P3S8.

Product description
Affected ESS Home Batteries are equipped with certain cells (including electrodes) of a particular battery cell lot manufactured between 29 March 2017 and 13 April 2017 ('CNA Cell Lot').

Country of origin
Republic of Korea

Counterfeit
No

Risk level
Medium

Risk Type
Fire

Risk description
The home batteries can overheat, presenting a risk of fire and emission of harmful smoke. The product has been identified as presenting a medium risk of fire and does not meet the requirements of the Electrical Equipment (Safety) Regulations 2016.

Measures taken by economic operators
LGES are replacing all potentially affected products from the relevant CNA Cell Lot and the Expanded Replacement Scope Lots. Further information on the recall can be found at the following website: https://www.lgessbattery.com/us/home-battery/news-view.lg?blcSn=1233

Online marketplace
N/A

Notifier
Office for Product Safety and Standards

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