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Guardian report this morning
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/11/us-health-agency-gives-innova-lateral-flow-covid-tests-scathing-review
Reply sent with the help from Numpty. Didnt want to state about an enquiry after a disaster as Numpty put in his message just yet.
Keeping it friendly.
My next email will raise that point
Good morning and thank you Mr **""for taking the time to raise my concerns and also for Minister Trevelyan in responding to me.
From what I have read in the response the UK appears to be continuing to plan for mass rollout of grid scale Lithium battery storage, having raised the safety issues I am very disappointed.
With respect, the cladding on Grefell flats was 'very' safe and I believe were in a similar situation here.
The problem here is when (not if) a large scale Lithium battery does decide to explode, catch fire (and take a week to be put out) the consequences will be catastrophic.
I appreciate you rely on other people's expertise and research but please look at google or other means of research and you will see that countries like South Korea initially chose lithium batteries and have now switched over to Vandium Redox Flow batteries due to the numerous fires and risk to population.
When you add the fact that apart from the safety benefits Vanadium Batteries have their life expectancy is 30+ years as opposed to lithium batteries approx 7 year life span (you will know this from your phone).
They are fully recyclable unlike serious recyclabling issues with Lithium and can be located near populated areas. From my perspective when all these advantages of Vanadium Redox Flow Batteries outweigh Lithium batteries it appears totally bizarre, especially when other countries have gone down the lithium mass storage route and discovered the fire risks on a grand scale. I am hopeful that the UK doesnt follow the same path.
10 minutes searching google for 'South Korea lithium fires' alone should show you the folly of allowing this technology in the proximity of the population.
It's not like there isn't far better, cheaper, safer, longer lasting technologies available. Hydrogen and VRFB's to name but two.
https://www.bestmag.co.uk/indnews/korean-energy-storage-system-fires-blamed-lithium-ion-battery-faults
https://www.thesun.ie/news/7045159/kildare-battery-storage-compound-firebombs-fears/
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2021/05/27/lg-energy-solution-to-replace-problem-li-ion-energy-storage-batteries/
https://www.vanadiumcorp.com/news/industry/south-korean-government-allows-flow-battery-to-be-used-for-ess/
http://www.koreaittimes.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=100926
Above are a few links to assist you in your research and look forward to hearing your reply to my continued concerns.
I would like to stress that I do not work in any industry related to battery storage but a concerned citizen worried about the likely hood of a humanitarian crisis as with all the money and science to try to make lithium batteries 100% safe as yet sadly this hasn't been achieved.
Kind regards
Thank you Numpty.
So frustrating that were heading towards another disaster regardless of M.Ps and emergency services being fully aware.
I used to think that they were there to protect us, that concept being seriously tested.
implemented.
Alongside our work on the regulatory framework, we are investing to support innovation in electricity storage. For example, we committed £317?million?to March 2022 to the Faraday Battery Challenge?to help the UK become a world-leader in research, development, and manufacture of batteries for electric vehicles. This?includes?a?£370,946?project which aims to reduce thermal runaway, improving the safety of Li-ion batteries. Additionally, under our previous Energy Innovation Portfolio we committed £70 million to 2021 to support innovation in smart technologies, including storage. As part of this we launched a £750,000 competition?won by?the company?RedT (now Invinity)?to accelerate a materials’ cost reduction programme for its patented vanadium flow machines?(batteries).
We are now building on this through the £1 billion Net Zero Innovation Portfolio. The portfolio will focus on ten priority areas that correspond with the Prime Minister’s Ten Point Plan for a Green Industrial Revolution, including at least £100million of innovation funding towards Energy Storage and Flexibility innovation programmes. Further details of any competitions launched will be published from Spring this year.
Thank you
Thank you for your email dated 28 April, enclosing correspondence from your constituent, Mr **** regarding battery storage. Mr **** also wrote to Lord Callanan on 5 May to raise his concerns, I am replying as this matter falls within my Ministerial portfolio.
As Mr ****** outlined, flexibility from technologies such as storage will be essential for achieving the transition to a low carbon energy system. Flexibility is the ability to shift, in time or location, energy consumption or generation to balance supply and demand. It enables the integration of high volumes of low carbon power, heat, and transport.
Deploying smart and flexible technologies such as electricity storage, demand side response and interconnection could save up to £12 billion per year by 2050. Storage provides flexibility to the system by maximising the use of intermittent renewables, providing a wide range of balancing services to the grid and alleviating constraints, helping to defer or avoid the need for costly network build.
There are a range of technologies that can provide electricity storage, some examples include: different types of battery storage, pumped hydro storage, and liquid and compressed air storage. We are facilitating the deployment of electricity storage technologies, and other forms of flexibility through actions to remove barriers, reform markets and invest in innovation as set out in the 2017 BEIS and Ofgem Smart Systems and Flexibility Plan - enabling them to enter the market and compete fairly alongside other new or established energy solutions.
When installed, maintained, and decommissioned correctly, electricity storage (including Lithium-ion batteries) poses minimal health and safety risks. However, it is vital to ensure that any risks are carefully mitigated. In 2018, my Department established an independent, industry-led?health?and safety?governance group for electricity storage,?responsible for ensuring that an appropriate, robust, and future-proofed?health?and safety framework is sustained?as the industry develops and storage deployment increases. Following a recommendation from this group, in 2020 BEIS procured a gap analysis to understand any possible gaps in the standards landscape and recommendations for how these can be addressed. We are now working with the health and safety governance group to consider these recommendations and understand whether and how they should be
https://twitter.com/VSUNEnergy/status/1397031478723190789?s=09
Disappointing reading.
9 out of 10 storage batteries in the uk lithium with the 10th being a combo
https://www.energy-storage.news/blogs/large-scale-battery-storage-in-the-uk-analysing-the-16gw-of-projects-in-dev
Thank you very much Alfa/L2 analyst/gshivers for your replies. Some great answers. Much appreciated.
Been invested in BMN for approx 3 years as complete novice and now happy to be invested here also.
Great potential here.
GLA