12/12/2025
🔥 GRID-SCALE BATTERY ENERGY STORAGE – UNDERSTANDING THE RISK 🔥
📅 11&12 February 2026 | 📍 Greater Manchester Training Centre
➡️ DAY 1: Free for Fire & Rescue personnel
➡️ DAY 2: Early Bird £75+VAT until 31 Dec
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⚡ The UK’s grid-scale battery sector is exploding — but are we truly ready for the risks?
Brought to you by Fire Knowledge in association with Fike and Greenfire Solutions
As sites accelerate nationwide, the need for clear, evidence-based understanding has never been greater. This essential one-day event brings together the leading minds shaping the future of battery energy storage safety, regulation and real-world response.
If you work in fire safety, emergency response, engineering, compliance, energy storage, planning or risk, this is the conference you cannot afford to miss.
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🔥 TOP SPEAKERS CONFIRMED
Hear from industry specialists including:
• Paul Bremble, NFCC
• Martin Blunden, Greenfire Solutions
• Matt Gable, Greenfire Solutions
• Mark Kendall, Fike
• Dr Pierrick Mindykowski, Fike
…with more high-profile experts to be announced.
They’ll break down the latest tech, risks, regulatory changes, case studies and future NFCC guidance — giving you the insight needed to stay ahead of this rapidly evolving sector.
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👥 WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
Day 1 (Fire & Rescue): Inspectors, Operational Officers, ICs, Watch/Crew Managers, Hazmat, Fire Investigation, T&D, and strategic leaders.
Day 2 (Non-Fire): Engineers, grid specialists, H&S, insurance, planners, project managers, operators, investors, academics + more.
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📘 WHAT YOU’LL TAKE AWAY
✔ Emerging storage technologies & risk implications
✔ Multi-layer protection & next-gen suppression systems
✔ Smoke plume and environmental contamination insight
✔ Regulatory updates + Environmental Permit Regulations
✔ Real UK incident case studies
✔ Latest NFCC Grid-Scale Storage Guidance
✔ Practical, actionable strategies for safer, smarter sites
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🚨 WHY YOU NEED TO BE THERE
Battery installations are growing faster than the guidance surrounding them.
This conference gives you:
• Direct access to national experts
• Knowledge you can apply immediately
• A clearer view of future risk, compliance and UK policy
• Connections with the people shaping and responding to this sector every day
If your role touches battery energy storage in any way, you need to be in the room.
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🎟 BOOK NOW – SPACES WILL GO FAST
🔥 Day 1 FREE for Fire Service
⚡ Day 2 Early Bird £75+VAT until 31 Dec (£99+VAT afterwards)
👉 Secure your place + share with colleagues who need to stay ahead of the curve.
Let’s shape a safer, smarter future for grid-scale battery energy storage.
https://fire-magazine.co.uk/grid-scale-battery-energy-storage-understanding-the-risk #1765537646443-2a51d960-b30e
