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EPRI Current Excerpt—Battery Energy Storage Systems: Lessons in Safety, Risk, and Deployment
With the causes and impacts of the Eaton & Palisades Wildfires in Los Angeles and Moss Landing fire bringing into sharp focus both the resilience opportunities that Distributed Energy Resources affords as well as safety concerns surrounding battery deployment in communities, VX News shares this excerpt from a recent episode of the EPRI Current podcast elaborating on the evolving safety protocols, research and resources—including EPRI’s Battery Electric Storage System Failure Incident Database and Analysis on Failure Root Cause—informing operational best practices for deployment of battery and energy storage technologies.