Fire Protection Guidance for Batteries and Electric Vehicle Charging

A selection of new and updated guidance documents have recently been made available by the Fire Protection Association (FPA) covering charging electric vehicles and battery installations, these include:

“RE1: Battery Energy Storage Systems – Commercial Lithium-Ion Battery Installations” this provides guidance and risk control recommendations for grid-integrated commercial (non-domestic) battery energy storage systems, for example systems used to store energy from wind and solar systems so it can e released to the national grid when required.

“RE2: Lithium-Ion Battery Use And Storage” which covers more general use of rechargeable batteries and also includes risk control recommendations.

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An updated edition of “RC59 Fire Safety When Charging Electric Vehicles” which provides good-practice risk control measures for the charging of electric vehicles using lithium-ion batteries.

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