The IET is due to launch a new Electrician’s Guide to Domestic Electrical Energy Storage Systems (EESS), a technology growing in popularity as the UK moves away from fossil fuels.
According to the latest statistics from the Microgeneration Certification Scheme (MCS), battery storage installations rose by 707% year-on-year in March 2024!
GTEC has helped write the guide. As renewable experts, delivering battery storage training from our centres throughout the UK, we have unrivalled knowledge of this technology and what electrician’s need to know to install EESS safely and effectively.
Before the final Electrician’s Guide to Domestic EESS is published, the IET wants feedback from industry to ensure it is as relevant and useful as possible. The guide is currently open for consultation, with feedback welcome until 4th November.
Visit: https://electrical.theiet.org/get-involved/consultations/draft-for-public-comment-iet-electrician-s-guide-to-domestic-electrical-energy-storage-systems/ to preview the guide and have your say.
About the new IET Electrician’s Guide to Domestic Electrical Energy Storage Systems
The new IET guide to battery storage systems will provide practical advice about the installation of domestic EESS, designed to be used in the field by electricians and in the classroom by training providers.
Topics covered, include:
- Benefits and limitations of domestic electrical energy storage systems
- Planning, permissions and consents
- Electrical design, system arrangements and schematics
- Fire safety and electrical safety, specifically in relation to domestic battery installations
- Data communications and control and monitoring
- Inspection, testing and commissioning
- User and maintenance instructions
The guide is intended to accompany the 18th Edition Wiring Regulations and the IET Code of Practice for Electrical Energy Storage Systems.
Get a first look at the new guide and have your say, here: https://electrical.theiet.org/get-involved/consultations/draft-for-public-comment-iet-electrician-s-guide-to-domestic-electrical-energy-storage-systems/
Rules for previewing the guide:
- You may download the documents for your own use to review the content
- No further electronic copying is allowed without written permission
- You are permitted to pass on the web link to the registration page for other people to register with and review documents
- You are not permitted to create a direct link to any of the DPC documents
- You are requested to return any comments using the DPC comment form provided
- The form should be submitted electronically to standardsandregulationsdpc@theiet.org
- Deadline for comments: Monday, 4 November 2024.
