内容摘要：There has been a furious reaction from those affected, with

There has been a furious reaction from those affected, with

BESS hold excess energy generated by wind and solar farms and then release it into the grid when the power is needed most.Lithium-ion batteries - found in phones, e-bikes and electric vehicles - are used in large numbers.

Mr Griffin warned the scale of BESS meant firefighters were having to learn new techniques."There can be complications with vapour clouds and fires will last a long time," he added."It is an emerging risk for us and we are alive to it."

He wanted fire services to be given more power to enforce safety measures."I'd like to see a power that is akin to a regulatory order like those for a commercial property, where we would have the power to enforce safety measures on those sites."

He explained that currently the fire service was just a "contributing partner" - able to give "direction and professional advice" to those developing at BESS.

Prof Paul Christensen, a lithium-ion battery expert at the University of Newcastle, said cells underwent "thermal runaway" when damaged."He thought he was doing it for the good. I don't agree with that, but he thought he was doing it for the greater good.

"There was a lack of information, it wasn't actually as bad as it could have been but we didn't know that."We couldn't find any information, we just knew it was coming, we didn't know how bad it was going to be.

"I think he woke up that morning and thought, 'I'm not risking it, I'm not risking losing everything I've worked for'."He said in the months before his father's death, "the only thing he talked about was inheritance tax".