Semi-Solid State Battery Dry Room Dew Point Control
Moisture is the quietest failure driver in lithium battery manufacturing. It rarely stops a line on the day the leak starts, hides inside an electrode roll…
Anode-Free Semi-Solid State Battery Cells: A Design Guide
An anode-free cell is the most honest test of an electrolyte. You start with a bare copper current collector, put every milligram of lithium in the cathode…
Home Energy Storage for Workshops: Loads, Sizing and Safety
My shop is a 700 square foot detached building with a 100 amp subpanel, a 3 HP dust collector, a 5 HP two-stage compressor, a cabinet saw, a 200 amp MIG we…
Home Energy Storage for Retirement Homes: Sizing and Uptime
I have commissioned energy storage in houses, small offices and licensed care buildings. The care buildings humble you. Every residential design assumption…
Battery Solution for Trailers: Power, Charging and Uptime
A towed trailer is the only power platform I work on where the building moves, the utility disappears, and the load shows up before the wiring does. When a…
Home Energy Storage for Remote Lodges: Sizing and Uptime
I have commissioned battery systems at three remote wilderness lodges over the past five years, and every one taught me the same lesson: a lodge is not a b…
Battery Solution for Kiosks: Power Budget and Uptime
Why Kiosk Power Is Its Own Engineering Problem
A self-service kiosk looks simple from the sidewalk. Inside, it is a small data center bolted to the street,…
Lithium Battery for Traffic Signal Backup Power
I still remember the first intersection audit I ran with a city traffic crew. We pulled twenty cabinet doors in one day and found fifteen had battery backu…
Home Energy Storage Performance for Small Offices
Small professional offices are the most misunderstood segment in the energy storage market. When a dentist, a two-lawyer firm, or a four-person design stud…
Home Energy Storage Performance for Townhouses
Fourteen attached units, one pad-mounted transformer, eleven identical 100 A services. That row of townhouses is why I stopped reusing my detached-house s…