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Public Consultation: PAS 63100 Electrical installations – Protection against fire of battery energy storage systems for use in dwellings – Specification

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The Draft of the new PAS 63100 standard for protection against fire of battery energy storage systems for use in dwellings is now available for public comment on BSI’s Standards Development web-site.

The public commenting period commences 26 June 2023, and on closes on 24 July 2023.

This topic is directly related to domestic storage installations accordance with BS 7671 and the IET Code of Practice for Electrical Energy Storage Systems.

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  • One very interesting observation:-

    • The (draft) BSI document on how to install batteries in a house: 24 pages long.
    • The (draft) IET document on how to install an electric car charger: 249 pages.
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  • One very interesting observation:-

    • The (draft) BSI document on how to install batteries in a house: 24 pages long.
    • The (draft) IET document on how to install an electric car charger: 249 pages.
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    Simon Barker said:
    The (draft) BSI document on how to install batteries in a house: 24 pages long.

    Another interesting observation.

    The (draft) BSI document refers for the electrical requirements to BS 7671 (600 pages long) and the IET Code of Practice for Electrical Energy Storage Systems (174 pages long), and BS 5839-6, etc.

    The issue being, the BSI document ONLY covers fire safety requirements for installing battery storage systems in DWELLINGS ...

    Simon Barker said:
    The (draft) IET document on how to install an electric car charger: 249 pages.

    And, although I know I've replied to this point you've raised before, the draft contained tracked changes, so is around 50 pages longer than the final version will be ...

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