Energy Storage System Safety Documenting and Validating Compliance with Codes and Standards

Technical Report · Mon Oct 01 04:00:00 EDT 2018

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1481549· OSTI ID:1481549

Conover, David R. ^[1]

---

1. Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)

Energy, environmental, and economic challenges are spurring more widespread consideration and use of energy storage systems (ESSs), which in turn are driving increased development of new ways to store energy electrochemically, mechanically, and thermally. These new methods necessitate an increased focus on ensuring that public health, safety, and welfare are not adversely affected—something that has been addressed for many years through codes, standards, and regulations (CSR5)1. CSRs provide requirements that establish a basis for determining if an ESS is safe, whether electrochemical, mechanical, or thermal and regardless of the range of ESS applications, energy capacities, physical sizes, location, or number installed at any given site. The key to achieving desired safety goals, as memorialized through CSRs, is through documenting and validating compliance with applicable CSRs. The process of documenting and validating compliance, which is a key component to the initial approval as well as continuing acceptance of an ESS installation, is generally called conformity assessment.

• Research Organization: Sandia National Laboratories (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability (OE)
• DOE Contract Number: AC04-94AL85000; NA0003525
• OSTI ID: 1481549
• Report Number(s): SAND--2018-12330R; 669022
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

25 ENERGY STORAGE