This recommended practice covers the selection, sizing, installation design, installation, maintenance, and testing procedures that can be used to optimize the life and performance of electrical energy storage devices and associated systems used in the starting of stationary reciprocating engines. It also provides guidance to determine when such devices should be replaced. Energy storage devices and associated systems covered by this document include: - Batteries (lead-acid, Ni-Cd, Ni-Zn) - Electric double-layer capacitors (EDLC), aka supercapacitors, ultracapacitors - Asymmetric hybrid supercapacitors and pseudocapacitors - Start/control battery chargers - Parallel battery blocking diode systems ("best battery selectors") - Monitoring systems Although turbine engines are not covered in detail, an informative annex is provided to discuss the application of this document for turbines with starting system voltages up to 48 Vdc nominal. Battery system voltages higher than 48 Vdc nominal, such as 125 Vdc (sometimes called “120 Vdc” or “130 Vdc”) control batteries on larger engines, are beyond the scope of this document. This document does not cover air start or other non-electric start systems. Small portable gensets covered by UL-2201 (such as those which can be started with a pull-string) and their starting systems are outside the scope of this document.
- Standard Committee
- PE/ESSB - Energy Storage & Stationary Battery Committee
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- Active PAR
- PAR Approval
- 2026-02-12
Working Group Details
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- IEEE Power and Energy Society
- Standard Committee
- PE/ESSB - Energy Storage & Stationary Battery Committee
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Engine Start - Engine-starting systems
- IEEE Program Manager
- Chinmae Deshmukkh
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- Richard Hutchins
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