Written Question·Department for Energy Security and Net Zero·UIN 56065

Batteries: Safety

Tabled: 30 May 2025
Answered: 9 June 2025

Question

Sarah Bool

ConservativeSouth Northamptonshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether his Department plans to publish a national register of safety (a) incidents and (b) near-misses involving battery energy storage systems.

Answer

Michael Shanks
The Department does not plan to publish a national register of safety incidents and near-misses involving battery energy storage systems (BESS). However, the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) has developed a publicly available database of global BE...

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