Installing solar? Think where you place your battery pack!

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Many of us are installing battery packs or Energy Storage Systems (ESS).

 

Obviously, there's a lot of energy in there just aching to escape, so think carefully where you put it!

 

A typical 10kWh ESS contains about as much energy as a litre of petrol/gasoline, so common sense suggests that you don't put your pack anywhere you wouldn't keep the gas can for your mower.

 

Chapter 15 of US regulation NFPA 855 is worth a read, most of it is common sense anyway but it can never hurt to follow the spirit if not the letter.

 

Of course it's not legally binding here so breaking the rules isn't going to get you arrested but ...

 

326a NFPA 855 2020.pdf

 

The US has a whole raft of regulations surrounding solar, inverters and batteries, some more relevant to us than others.

For the masochists among us a Google search will reveal free downloads.