Fire safety training and protocols need to keep pace with increasingly advanced battery technology, a panel of experts said Tuesday at a California conference.
Utility-scale battery fires are not easily extinguished because they continue to emit energy, said Paul Hayes, general manager and fire protection engineer at American Fire Technologies, a division of The Hiller Cos.
“They don’t get rid of the energy,” he said following a discussion at the the Intersolar North America and Energy Storage North America conference in Long Beach. “There’s not a good solution out there.”
