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Bess
[bes]
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And that's where Bess come in.
And in January of this year, a fire at one of the world's largest Bess plants in northern California led to the evacuation of around 1,500 people and the closure of a major highway.
Prof Dryfe says that fires are indeed a risk - not just at the Bess installations themselves, but also at the recycling plants that deal with the batteries at the end of their life.
Other factors holding back wider Bess installation include humanitarian and environmental concerns about the mining of necessary materials such as cobalt, while in Germany there are fears that the national grid simply can't cope with the number of facilities springing up.
While there may not yet be any international standards on Bess facility safety, countries including China, the US, the UK and Australia are all working on technical guidelines.
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