This webinar focuses on why battery fires occur, how they are investigated, and how technical evidence shapes insurance and dispute outcomes.
Battery energy storage is being deployed faster than the standards and loss experience needed to underwrite it confidently. When fires occur, in grid-scale BESS, EV fleets, or industrial installations, the consequences are severe, the investigation is complex, and the questions of cause and liability are rarely straightforward.
Webinar Details
Overview
We will examine how battery fires initiate and propagate, where investigators most commonly encounter evidential challenges, and how engineering analysis is used to determine cause, apportion responsibility, and inform reinstatement or settlement decisions.
Format: Live Webinar
Duration: 60 minutes (Including Q&A)
Speakers: Mamoon Alyah & Amir Pourghorban
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Session 1 - Live: Wednesday 25th March, 11:00 GMT
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Session 2 - Pre-Recorded: Thursday 26th March, 8:00 GMT
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Learning Objectives:
- How battery systems fail, including the mechanisms behind thermal runaway, cell-level failure, and fire propagation across modules and enclosures
- How fire scene investigation differs for battery incidents, including evidence preservation challenges, suppression impacts, and the limits of post-fire physical examination
- What documentation, monitoring data, and operational records are most significant in a battery fire investigation, and how gaps in that data affect causation analysis
- How cause and responsibility are assessed when failures involve overlapping contributions from cell manufacture, system integration, installation quality, thermal management, or operational conditions
- How engineering findings are translated into clear technical positions that support insurance coverage decisions, reinstatement planning, subrogation strategy, and dispute resolution
Speakers
Mamoon Alyah
Managing Director, Principal Engineer
Mamoon Alyah is the founder and Managing Director of CEERISK Consulting Ltd, with over 35 years of experience in electrical engineering, forensic investigation, and risk consulting. He is a UK Chartered Engineer and a US Professional Engineer, and he is a Certified Risk Management Professional with an MBA. Mamoon has led complex investigations and expert engagements across multiple jurisdictions, providing independent analysis and reporting for insurers, legal teams, and infrastructure owners on major electrical failures, fire incidents, and energy assets.
Amir Pourghorban
Engineering Consultant
Amir Pourghorban is a Senior Engineering Consultant at CEERISK Consulting Ltd. in London, where he provides expert witness support and leads forensic investigations. His engineering background spans the oil and gas, power generation and storage, renewables, and commercial property sectors. He holds dual Master's degrees in Petroleum & Environmental Technology and Reservoir Engineering, and a PhD in Data and AI-driven diagnostics and failure analysis from Cranfield University. In his forensic practice, he specialises in analysing failures related to equipment breakdown, contamination, corrosion, chemical reaction processes, and fire investigations, applying his expertise in thermodynamic and fluid system dynamics to investigate the root causes of battery fires.
