[buran77]

Big battery installations always received lots of international attention, with few objections to this kind of positive exposure. HN alone had dozens of submissions on the topic [0]. Your objection now seems to be more towards the negative exposure. What's your proposal?

This makes the news mainly because of the novelty. Not many "big batteries" out there, and even fewer such fires. So when one happens it's news. The second "lesser" reason is because it could be a sign of things to come. We're far more familiar with the pitfalls of tech we've been developing for a century. With batteries I'm sure we're still discovering operational aspects that were not considered or not given enough attention.

[0] https://hn.algolia.com/?q=battery+australia