Premium Webinar Series: Battery Energy Storage Systems - Battery Fire Risk: Imperfect Testing, Harsh Realities, and Bridging the Gap with Codes and Training

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Description

The presenter, Nick Warner of ESRG, will share experiences from large scale energy storage testing and identify the current state of UL9540A and bespoke large scale fire testing versus the reality of failures in the field. The webinar will also discuss current code requirements and enforcement as it relates to large scale ESS and identify gaps in safety and best practice. The webinar will also discuss the modifications of ERPs and approaches to training over time to account for the discrepancies in testing and current engineering analysis vs the reality of ESS failure.

Contributors

Nick Warner

Nick Warner is an engineer and former volunteer fire fighter who has been testing batteries since 2010. With experience performance and safety testing in stationary ESS, electric vehicles, and other battery applications , Nick has made a career of advancing energy storage in a safe and reliable manner. Since 2015, Nick has been involved in product development, controls validation, explosion and plume modeling, hazard mitigation analysis, permitting, emergency response planning, field response to failures and has performed hundreds of medium and large scale battery fire tests. Nick also sits as a committee member on NFPA 855 as well as several UL Technical Committees including UL1973, UL9540 and UL9540A.