Home Energy Storage for Multi-Family Buildings
In fifteen years of designing stationary lithium battery systems, the projects I get called back to audit are almost never the single-family garage install…
Semi-Solid State Battery Fast Charge Capability and Limits
Pulling 4C out of a semi-solid state pack sounds like a spec sheet triumph until you watch a thin slice of anode under a reference electrode and see lithiu…
Home Energy Storage Payback Period Calculation Guide
After twenty years of sizing lithium battery systems, I have reviewed hundreds of payback spreadsheets submitted by distributors and homeowners, and I woul…
Lithium Battery Testing for Power Tools: Pulse-Current
In eleven years of designing and validating lithium battery packs for cordless tools, I have watched more projects fail at the validation bench than at the…
Battery Solution for Refrigerated Transport Units
Refrigerated transport has quietly become one of the most demanding environments a lithium battery can be asked to survive in. Over the past eleven years I…
Sodium-Ion Battery Design for Street Lights: Off-Grid
Twelve years into designing lithium battery packs for outdoor deployments, I assumed the first truly large sodium-ion fleet I would touch would be a contai…
Battery Solution for Film and Television Field Kits
I have spent more than ten years specifying and qualifying lithium cell packs for broadcast, cinema and field-production customers, and the same conversati…
Semi-Solid State Battery for High Altitude Platforms
I have spent the last four years building lithium battery packs for aircraft that never land. Not passenger jets — high altitude platform stations (HAPS):…
Home Energy Storage Permits and Code Compliance
Between 2021 and 2025, my team either prepared or technically reviewed 214 permit submittal packages for residential battery projects across eleven jurisdi…
Lithium Battery Design for Mobility Devices: Airline and
Over the past eleven years I have personally managed the design, certification, and field rollout of lithium battery packs for more than 60 mobility device…