As investment in renewable energy grows, so does the complexity and financial exposure of system failures. Battery storage fires, solar park faults, and wind turbine breakdowns can cause multi-million-dollar losses with contested, multi-party liability. Mission Critical Forensics provides expert, evidence-based investigations into failures across all three asset classes — determining the precise root cause and delivering the technical clarity needed for insurance claims, subrogation recovery, and loss prevention.
We investigate complex failures within Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) across the full spectrum of loss types — from confined thermal events in a single battery module, to facility-level fires and explosions that destroy an entire installation.
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BESS fire investigation is a distinct forensic discipline. We provide dedicated specialist investigation services for battery storage fires and thermal runaway events.
Our experience includes root cause analysis of failures across commercial and utility-scale solar parks — from rooftop C&I (commercial and industrial) systems to large ground-mounted arrays. Solar PV (photovoltaic) failures span a wide range of loss types: sudden, high-consequence events such as inverter fires and DC arc faults, and progressive failures such as systematic module degradation or string circuit deterioration that surface only when output losses trigger a claim. We investigate the full system — from individual PV modules through to the medium-voltage grid connection.
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We provide forensic investigation of wind turbine failures across both mechanical and electrical systems. Wind turbines are among the most demanding assets to investigate — operating under high cyclic loads in remote environments, with complex multi-vendor supply chains that make liability attribution contentious. Whether the loss involves a catastrophic gearbox seizure, a nacelle fire, or a blade structural failure, our investigations reconstruct the precise sequence of events and identify the system and component at the origin of the loss.
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All complex loss investigations are led by our Principal Engineer, Alicia Yan P.Eng.
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