16 Oct The SFPE Foundation is set to research Energy Storage Systems Hazards

The SFPE Foundation announced the funding of research into Energy Storage System Hazards.

“Funding made possible through the Grand Challenges Initiative and the GCI Partner organizations has enabled us to support this much-needed research,” stated Leslie Marshall, PhD, Director, SFPE Foundation.

“After this work is completed, we expect to have a deeper understanding of how ESS fires and related hazards compare to other industrial and storage fires.”

The project, titled Energy Storage System (ESS) Hazards, is set to review existing data, research studies, and historical failure events to identify fire and explosion hazards associated with BESS technology.

Upon project completion, the information will be dispersed to the fire protection design, fire engineering, and fire service communities to provide more accurate guidance on fire protection design.

Comprehensive information on BESS hazards will also be used to compare the effects of BESS fire and explosion events to other industrial fires. The research team will collaboratively work with the SFPE Foundation and its technical review panel throughout the entire project.

“We are proud and honored to be selected as co-recipients of an SFPE Foundation project. We are extremely excited that this project will enable us to collaborate with the experts from Fire & Risk Alliance on such a timely topic as BESS fire safety,” said Grunde Jomaas, PhD (FRISSBE, ZAG).

“We are thrilled to be a co-recipient of the SFPE Foundation project. ESS play an increasingly vital role in meeting the world’s growing clean energy needs and in ensuring resiliency in our communities. This project will provide valuable resources to the general public and the fire engineering community to safely develop and deploy ESS. We look forward to working with our partners at FRISSBE and the Foundation to make this project a success,” added Noah L Ryder, PhD, PE (Fire & Risk Alliance, LLC).