Aah, so a bug and not an oversight on my end? I'm happy to hear that, thanks guys, appreciate the heads up!
And now that I'm at it (here's hoping it'll be accepted this time): also extra compliments for IC2 in general, I discovered it last week (IC2) and immediately took a liking to it because of the massive amount of diversity it provides. Right now I'm playing it together with integrated dynamics, tinkers construct and applied energetics and it really blends in very nicely, I'm having a great time so far!
It does take some effort to figure some things out (I can imagine this to be even harder if you're not familiar with 'tech mods') but its very much worth it. So thanks for that!
And once again; thanks for the quick replies guys, I appreciate it!
In the mean time I fixed my issue with an extra batbox for which I set the redstone to "always off" (if I recall correctly, I had issues with the other settings) and then simply ran a redstone line into that. Now I can more easily control my energy flow. And the extra buffering in the batbox is also working out