We need a grid battery public safety standard
By
David Wojick
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April 7th, 2025
The existing battery safety standards are grossly incomplete for the huge grid-scale battery complexes being recklessly built in large numbers.
Massachusetts recently requested public comments that addressed important issues with its planned multi-billion dollar battery buy. Public safety was one of the issues, so I submitted the comments given below. I only found out about this request at the last moment, so the comments are brief, but they touch on some central safety concerns.
By way of background, in December, a law was passed mandating that the big Massachusetts electric power utilities buy a whopping 5,000 MW of grid-scale batteries. Round 1 will buy up to 1,500 MW of 4 to 10 hour batteries, and round 2 will buy another 1,000 MW.
The State Energy Office and the utilities are working on the RFPs for these two monster battery buys. They put out a list of key RFP related “stakeholder questions,” and asked for comments on them. Here are my comments.
https://www.cfact.org/2025/04/07/we-need-a-grid-battery-public-safety-standard/#
