Home Energy Storage Self-Consumption Maximization
I have commissioned residential battery systems on three continents, and one pattern repeats everywhere: most homeowners buy a home energy storage unit exp…
Sodium-Ion Battery Grid Frequency Regulation
Every grid operator I have ever sat across the table from shares the same quiet anxiety: keep the frequency pinned at 50.00 Hz (or 60.00 Hz in No…
Sodium-Ion Battery Portable Power Station
I still remember the first time a customer brought a lithium-ion power station back to our lab in January, swollen and angry after a summer spent in the be…
Sodium-Ion Battery Telecom Tower Backbone
As a senior lithium battery engineer, I have spent the better part of fifteen years standing in the mud next to telecom towers, listening to diesel generat…
Sodium-Ion Battery Supply Chain Security: An Engineer’s (2)
Over the last eighteen months I have spent more time in supplier audit meetings than in the lab. As a senior lithium battery engineer, I have watched pro…
Lithium Battery for Broadcast and Film Production
On a film set, power is not glamorous until it fails. I have stood on location at 3 a.m. watching a cinema camera go dark mid-take because a cheap lead-aci…
Lithium Battery for Mining and Heavy Equipment
Over the last three years I have spent more time than I ever expected standing at the edge of open-pit haul roads and ducking under low ceilings in undergr…
Lithium Battery Second Life and Repurposing
Most lithium cells are retired long before they are actually tired. After a decade of building and grading packs, I have learned that a lithium battery sec…
Lithium Battery for Energy Harvesting Storage
As a Senior Lithium Battery Engineer at Horizon Power, I have spent the better part of a decade designing storage for systems that never plug into the grid…
Semi-Solid State Battery for Marine and Underwater Use
Over the past eight years at Horizon Power, I have spent more hours than I care to count troubleshooting lithium battery packs that failed in the field &md…