SafeBESS: Technology and building design for safe operation of battery energy storage systems

Safety, governance and responsibility

Building resilience through leadership, governance and accountability.

The goal is to provide knowledge on how fire safety can become a strategic strength for organisations and society:

• How authorities, management and organisations can protect critical functions
• Fire safety as a natural part of risk and emergency management
• Learning from experiences, investigations and system failures

Research, knowledge and documentation

From insight to decision-making – document and explain the value of safety.

Discover new knowledge that makes us better equipped to understand and reduce risk:

• What the latest research reveals about how to safely and robustly meet rapid technological developments
• Methods for documenting safety and societal benefits
• Structured decision support and interdisciplinary processes

Energy systems, technology and infrastructure

Securing critical functions in a technologically advanced and energy-intensive society.

Explore how new technology and infrastructure affect risk and safety:

• Fire safety in data centres, energy storage, and other critical facilities
• International and national lessons learned from incidents and case studies
• New standards and solutions for safe operations and continuous availability

SafeBESS at the conference

SafeBESS was well represented at the conference, both through presentations and participation from several of the partners. From SINTEF, Fride Vullum-Bruer, Brynhild Garberg Olsø and Anne-Marit Haukø attended. Fride and Brynhild presented results from SafeBESS, while Anne-Marit presented results from another project focusing on fire properties of insulation materials used in buildings. In addition, professor Anne Elise Steen Hansen from NTNU attended the conference.

SafeBESS presentations

Battery fires in practice – a challenge for a sustainable and robust society: Tests, simulations and extinguishing water analyses

• Experiences from cell and module tests as well as simulation work
• Extinguishing water analyses and the consequences for sustainable and safe solutions

Safe buildings for large batteries: Ventilation, construction choices and the new guidance document that will show the way

• Construction-related challenges and ventilation strategies in battery rooms
• When the new guidance document for battery rooms will be released – and what it will cover