GFI has won a KRW 15.9 billion contract for Samsung SDI's North American ESS fire-safety solution. It will install DI-KIT at 20 sites by 2027. This contract shows that fire-safety devices are being ordered not as a cell-level option but as a site-level system line item. On the operations side, what is needed first is defining the installation sequence across the 20 sites and the interface with existing systems. 1. What Happened To state the conclusion first: ESS fire-safety solutions have moved into a phase of being applied in bulk across multiple sites. Until now, the general approach for North American ESS was to address site-specific safety requirements individually. Bundling…