Lithium-ion battery storage system integrator Fluence and iron-air battery startup Form Energy have completed fire safety and explosion testing of energy storage technologies.
Energy-Storage.news Premium’s mini-series on fire safety and industry practices concludes with a discussion of strategies for testing and the development of codes and standards.
More and more Authorities Having Jurisdiction (AHJ) over where energy storage systems get built are requiring battery storage projects to have active means of protection against potential explosion.
The challenges of explosion prevention – with flammable gases needing to be vented “very rapidly” – in the event of a battery fire have been highlighted at this week’s Energy Storage Summit USA.
The energy storage industry should be well prepared to deal with failure in lithium-ion battery systems so that thermal runaway in a single battery cell never becomes a fire or explosion.
