Safety Services Directory
CESA members have a wealth of safely knowledge and services that can contribute to the safe and successful deployment of energy storage within California. If you offer safety-related services that may be implemented by energy storage providers, please contact Emily Yan (eyan@storagealliance.org) to have your services and products included below.
Carrier Corporation
Website: https://www.carrier.com/commercial/en/us/
Safety Point of Contact Name:
Brian W. Meneghan
Account Executive
Energy Systems Specialist | Government Solutions
Brian.Meneghan@Carrier.com
518-415-2003
About Carrier Corporation:
Founded by the inventor of modern air conditioning, Carrier is a world leader in high-technology heating, air-conditioning and refrigeration solutions. Carrier experts provide sustainable solutions, integrating energy-efficient products, building controls and energy services for residential, commercial, retail, transport and food service customers. Carrier’s HVAC business is a part of Carrier Global Corporation, a leading global provider of innovative HVAC, refrigeration, fire, security and building automation technologies.
Service | Customer Type | Service Details |
Thermal Battery Conditioning / Management Service | Manufacturer, Developers, Power Density Designer | Functional thermal safety review and assistance, design review for codes and standards compliance, enhanced battery life, ASHRAE, functional safety analysis |
Design Build Labs
Website: www.designbuildlabs.com
Safety Point of Contact Name:
William Robertson
President
william@designbuildlabs.com
310-985-3969
About Design Build Labs:
Design Build Labs (DBL) is the leading integrated project management, design, and permit expediting firm specializing in Battery Energy Storage Systems.
During fundraising and due diligence, we generate the budget, schedule, site design, architectural design, and municipal paperwork needed to get planning approval and conditional use approval.
Once we have achieved conditional use approval we provide meeting leadership, schedule optimization, construction drawing development, task management, and building permit approval.
We turn expectations into reality by doing all the little things on a project that no one else wants to do.
Service | Customer Type | Service Details |
Due Diligence Modeling | Developers, Integrators, Manufactures, REIT, Municipalities, Government | 3D site modeling, schedules, budgets, entitlement research and planning. |
Schematic Drawings | Developers, Integrators, Manufactures, REIT, Municipalities, Government | Site plans and Architectural plans that are needed for conditional use permits. |
Conditional Use Permitting | Developers, Integrators, Manufactures, REIT, Municipalities, Government | Produce, refine and submit conditional use permitting documentation. Facilitate approvals. Pull permits. |
Construction Drawings | Developers, Integrators, Manufactures, REIT, Municipalities, Government | Develop drawings for permit compliance and construction. Lead the coordination of subconsultants. |
Building Permits | Developers, Integrators, Manufactures, REIT, Municipalities, Government | Produce, refine and submit building permit documentation. Facilitate approvals. Pull permits. |
Project Leadership | Developers, Integrators, Manufactures, REIT, Municipalities, Government | Host meetings, define scope for vendors, suggest corrections to sub consultant documentation. |
Progress Documentation | Developers, Integrators, Manufactures, REIT, Municipalities, Government | Maintain agendas, minutes and updates to budgets. Provide version tracking documentation. |
Task Management | Developers, Integrators, Manufactures, REIT, Municipalities, Government | Track all vendors in the development and timely completion of specific responsibilities. |
Construction Management | Developers, Integrators, Manufactures, REIT, Municipalities, Government | High level leadership and project tracking against budget and schedule goals through construction. |
Activation | Developers, Integrators, Manufactures, REIT, Municipalities, Government | Manage and execute activation tasks with municipalities and utility companies. |
Closeout | Developers, Integrators, Manufactures, REIT, Municipalities, Government | Finalize required closeout tasks with developers, municipalities and utilities. Detail the closeout of the general contractor. |
Energy Storage Response Group
Website: www.energyresponsegroup.com
Point of Contact:
Nick Warner
Principal
nick.warner@energyresponsegroup.com
740-981-7683
About Energy Storage Response Group (ESRG):
Energy Storage Response Group (ESRG) is the energy storage industry’s first and only complete provider for safety and emergency management solutions. Offering expertise in testing, code compliance, permitting, site safety, training, emergency response, failure investigation, and post-incident disposal, ESRG stands alone in offering cradle-to-grave safety solutions for the energy storage industry. Learn more about the experienced team, capabilities and experience, and overview of services.
Service | Customer Type | Service Details |
Certification Advisory Services | Manufacturer, Integrator, Financier/Private Equity | Functional safety review and assistance, design review for codes and standards compliance, FMEA, HMA, functional safety analysis |
Code Compliance Services | Integrator, Utility, End User, Insurance/Reinsurance | Risk and hazard mitigation assessment, disposal pre-planning, documentation and certification management |
End of Life Support | Integrator, Utility, End User, Insurance/Reinsurance | Fire and failure investigation, disposal and decommissioning, hazmat remediation |
Permitting and Deployment | Integrator, Utility, End User, AHJ, Fire Department | Technician, subject-matter expert (SME), first responder, and firefighter training, permitting support along with product safety and design review, fire protection engineering support |
Subject Matter Expertise and Training | Integrator, Utility, End User, AHJ, Fire Department, Insurance/Reinsurance | 24/7 SME availability in conjunction with cloud-based monitoring, whitepaper and industry movement reports regarding safety and compliance, emergency response planning and SOP development |
Testing | Manufacturer, Integrator | UL 9540A, Internal Fire, External Fire, Research and Product Development, Pre-certification |
Li-Ion Tamer Group
Website: https://liiontamer.com/
Safety Point of Contact:
Steve Cummings
Sensors Business Unit Manager
s.cummings@nexceris.com
(614) 824-9319
About Li-Ion Tamer Group:
The Li-ion Tamer® products were developed by the dedicated team at Nexceris, LLC. Founded in 1994, Nexceris prides itself in its core values of innovation, customer service, passion, and integrity. Our dual passions for safety and supporting the growth of clean alternative energy lead us down the path of the Li-ion Tamer® development. The technology was first developed by Nexceris with support of the U.S. Navy to improve the safety of lithium ion battery installations on-board ships. Since then the technology has evolved into products for utility and commercial and industrial battery energy storage systems. In 2020 we partnered with Xtralis, a Honeywell company, to leverage their world-wide network of distribution, sales, and installation expertise. The partnership aims to continuously improve the Li-ion Tamer products and provide innovative safety solutions, building a safety platform for all lithium-ion battery users, and enabling the growth of clean energy.
Service | Customer Type | Service Details |
Lithium-ion Battery Safety Products | AHJ / End User, Integrator, Manufacturer | Off-gas Detection System Design, Integration Drawings, Specification Development, Applications Engineering, Battery Failure Testing, Product Development |
Webinars, lunch and learns, and other educational materials | AHJ / End User, Integrator, Manufacturer | Informational discussion on the stages of a battery fire, detection methods for each stage of the failure and mitigating actions that can be taken. The material includes data of battery failure testing and case studies. |
UL LLC
Website: https://www.ul.com/offerings/energy-storage-system-testing-and-certification
Safety Point of Contact:
James Trudeau
Global Business Development Manager
james.trudeau@ul.com
About UL:
Around the globe, UL works to help customers, purchasers and policymakers navigate market risk and complexity. UL builds trust in the safety, security and sustainability of products, organizations and supply chains – enabling smarter choices and better lives. Our robust suite of offerings includes testing, inspection, auditing, certification, verification, training, advisory services and software solutions. Learn more UL.com.
Service | Customer Type | Service Details |
Safety testing and certifications to UL, IEC, CSA, UN and other standards | OEMs, Integrators, Developers | UL provides safety testing and certifications to nearly all available battery and energy storage system standards including UL 9540 and UL 1973. |
Large scale fire testing to UL 9540A | OEMs, Integrators, Developers | UL is the leading provider of UL 9540A testing for cell, module, rack and installation level to assist with complying with NFPA 855, ICC IFC 2018 and 2021. With over 2 years of providing formal testing reports we can assist you in getting your testing done quickly and efficiently. |
Professional & Advanced Advisory Services | Developers, Independent Power Producers, Financiers, Insurance Providers, OEMs, Utilities, Municipalities and Electric Cooperatives | UL provides comprehensive advisory and technical due diligence services using distributed energy resources (DERs) for commercial, industrial, microgrid and utility-scale projects including system sizing, use case analysis (e.g. energy shifting arbitrage, peak demand charge reduction, demand response, capacity merchant market participation and resiliency), technology risk evaluation, warranty compliance, performance guarantees, CAPEX/OPEX assessments and augmentation strategies. |
Independent Engineering and Bankability Studiest | Developers, Financiers, OEMs | UL’s engineers have a deep background in renewable energy performance and can readily provide independent engineering reports and technology bankability studies for solar PV, energy storage (and the combination) for project for acquisition, divesture, or green-field finance. |