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The Bill glosses over the consequences of failures in long-term and short-term energy storage, including large-scale battery storage systems and their risks. You do not need to be a bright spark to realise that an electrical spark can be dangerous when mixed with huge electric capacity, flammables and oil-rich transformers. Many of the proposed LDES and BESS—battery electric storage system—schemes in particular are in the countryside, where hydrants are few and far between. Rivers and ponds may be far away across the fields, or along narrow lanes. Water carriers may be miles away, and during a dry period, a deep-seated hard to fight fire can spawn secondary blazes that run wild across the whole area.