The latest sampling standards for power storage batteries

With the 2026 edition of NFPA 855 expected to be finalized and published in 2025, the energy storage industry is already incorporating key enhanced requirements and is ready to work with states and local governments to implement the latest version of the standard. At its December 2025 meeting, the Standards Council voted to approve the request of the Technical Committee on Battery Safety Code to proceed with the development of proposed NFPA 800, Battery Safety Code, as a provisional standard using the expedited Annex B procedures of the 2025 ANSI Essential. Assists users involved in the design and management of new stationary lead-acid, valve-regulated lead-acid, nickel-cadmium, and lithium-ion battery installations. 75 gigawatts of additional deployments between 2023 and 2027 across all market segments,1 with approximately 95% of current projects using Li ion battery technology. 2 Incidents involving fire or explosion are quite rare, with the EPRI Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) Failure Event Database3.