Breaking and Advanced Way of Energy Storage Fire Fighting Enterprises

On July 1, the energy storage industry ushered in a round of intensive standards and policies. From the general specification of grid safety to the fire protection design guidelines, to the determination of the hidden dangers of major power accidents, a number of heavyweight documents came into effect on the same day, marking a new stage of energy storage safety supervision.

The China Fire Protection Association approved the release of the group standard T/CFPA 055-2026 "Guidelines for Fire Protection Design of Electrochemical Energy Storage Power Stations" on April 3, 2026, and the implementation date is also set on July 1. The standard provides specific guidance for the fire protection design of electrochemical energy storage power stations, covering key links such as energy storage system layout, fire protection zoning, fire protection facilities configuration, etc., and aims to standardize the fire safety requirements of electrochemical energy storage power stations in the planning, construction and operation stages.

This guideline and the new version of GB/T 51048-2025 "Electrochemical Energy Storage Power Station Design Standard" implemented on April 1 this year have formed a double constraint system of "design standard fire protection standard. GB/T 51048-2025, issued by the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, is a comprehensive revision of the 2014 version of the Design Code for Electrochemical Energy Storage Power Stations. It is called "the strictest design code for energy storage in history" by the industry. It is applicable to electrochemical energy storage power stations with rated power of 500kW and above and rated energy of 500kWh and above. It covers various technical routes such as lithium ion batteries, sodium ion batteries, liquid flow batteries, liquid flow batteries, lead acid batteries, lead acid batteries, lead acid batteries, lead acid/lead carbon batteries, fire spacing is also strictly regulated. The two standards have landed, building a closed-loop safety chain from the design end to the fire end.

In fact, since the beginning of this year, energy storage fire accidents have still occurred from time to time. The implementation of the fire protection design guidelines is to strengthen the safety rigid constraints from the source design stage, and move the fire safety from "after-the-fact remediation" to "prior planning".

In the face of this "double constraint" and "gate forward" industry changes, as an energy storage fire protection enterprise, Shengsida realized that it must take the initiative to extend the service chain forward and actively establish a technical service system that cooperates with integrators and owners. In the past, many enterprises focused more on the delivery of single products such as fire extinguishing devices, detection alarms, gas fire fighting, etc. However, after T/CFPA 055-2026 "Guidelines for Fire Protection Design of Electrochemical Energy Storage Power Stations" and GB/T 51048-2025 landed one after another, what customers really need is not a certain fire protection product, but a set of fire protection safety solutions that can be embedded in the whole life cycle of energy storage power stations. Only by truly understanding the thermal runaway mechanism of the energy storage system and the differences in power station scenarios can the fire protection plan move from "satisfying acceptance" to "actual combat effectiveness".

At the same time, the tightening of standards also forced Shengsida to speed up product upgrading, in accordance with the requirements of the new standards, continue to improve the product in the detection sensitivity, linkage reliability, environmental adaptability and system compatibility capabilities, especially in lithium, sodium, liquid flow and other different technical routes to form a differentiated configuration scheme. The future competition is no longer who can sell more equipment, but who can provide more landing, more verifiable and more traceable security capabilities for energy storage projects under the framework of new regulations. For energy storage fire protection enterprises, this is not only a compliance challenge, but also an important window period to reshape the industry pattern.