Sodium-Ion Battery for Mobile Light Towers
Over the past three years at Horizon Power, I have watched mobile light towers shift from diesel toward battery power in nearly every RFP our applications…
Home Energy Storage for Electric Water Heater Load Shift
As a senior lithium battery engineer at Horizon Power, I am asked constantly where a home battery actually saves money. Solar self-consumption is the obvio…
Battery Solution for Forklift and Material Handling Fleets
Forklift fleets are the one place in a warehouse where a power decision shows up on the profit and loss statement inside a single shift. I have spent the p…
Lithium Battery for Solar Water Pumping Systems
Over the last decade I have commissioned lithium battery banks for more than forty off-grid and hybrid solar water pumping sites, from smallholder irrigati…
Semi-Solid State Battery for Smart Locks and Access Control
Most smart locks still ship with commodity cylindrical cells that were never designed for a door. At Horizon Power I have tested dozens of access-control b…
Sodium-Ion Battery Charger Compatibility and Protocols
Why Charger Compatibility Is the First Sodium-Ion Deployment Gap
I have spent the last decade spec’ing lithium battery packs for drones, robots, and statio…
Battery Solution for Wastewater Aeration Blowers
Aeration blowers are the lungs of a wastewater treatment plant, and they are also the single largest electricity consumer on site. In most activated-sludge…
Semi-Solid State Battery Sulfide Electrolyte Handling Safety
When I first moved from liquid lithium-ion lines to a sulfide-based semi-solid state battery pilot line, the biggest adjustment was not the electrochemistr…
Sodium-Ion Battery for Railway Crossing Signals
I am Karl Huang, Senior Lithium Battery Engineer at Horizon Power. For the past decade I have specified stationary batteries for safety-critical infrastruc…
Semi-Solid State Battery Second Life and Repurposing
As a senior lithium battery engineer at Horizon Power, I have spent the last decade watching the same pattern repeat across every new chemistry we ship. Th…