Energy storage’s incredible versatility and usefulness can’t be fully unleashed without a comprehensive approach to fire safety.

We hear from two battery storage insurance industry sources about how they view the technology and the main risks they assess when designing policies.

CATL is working with ‘safety science’ specialist UL Solutions on the safer deployment of batteries for stationary storage and transport applications.

A roundup of US energy storage news from Powin Energy, Tesla and Homer Electric, and Rome-based Energy Dome.

Any new energy technology asset class comes with risk that needs to be recognised, write Liam McEneaney and Daniel Stevens at AXIS Insurance.

Invinity Energy’s UL1973 safety certification will open up doors for its technology and streamline complex project development steps.

Fire testing of Fluence’s battery storage solution showed that thermal runaway in one ‘Cube’ would not spread fire to surrounding units.

KORE Power will provide batteries for a 20MWh battery storage project under development between ABB and UK green energy supplier Ecotricity.

Global safety certification company UL has released a software platform for optimising utility-scale energy storage systems (ESS) to, the company says, help advance deployment of the technology globally.

Science safety leader UL has created a certification service for energy storage equipment subassemblies (ESES) to achieve UL 9540, allowing large storage assets to procure certified components when building systems.