Home Energy Storage Demand Charge Management
Home Energy Storage Demand Charge Management: How a Battery Cuts Your Peak Demand Bill
I still remember the first time a client in California forwarded me…
Home Energy Storage State of Charge Best Practice
What State of Charge Actually Means in a Home Battery
When a homeowner asks me about getting the most life out of their home energy storage system, the con…
Home Energy Storage for Tiny Homes and ADUs
I have spent the last fifteen years on the factory floor and in the field, and few applications test a battery engineer’s assumptions like tiny homes and…
Home Energy Storage Community Solar Program Guide
Why I Keep Getting Asked About Home Energy Storage and Community Solar
As a senior lithium battery engineer who has spent the last decade designing, testin…
Home Energy Storage Coastal Humid Climate
I have lost count of how many battery enclosures I have pried open on the coast only to find terminals crusted in white salt bloom and a BMS board quietly…
Home Energy Storage Inverter Sizing and Selection
When a homeowner asks me to specify a home energy storage system, the battery usually gets all the attention. Capacity in kilowatt-hours, chemistry, warran…
Home Energy Storage Battery Chemistry Options
When a homeowner or installer asks me to spec a home energy storage system, the single decision that drives every downstream parameter is battery chemistry…
Home Energy Storage for Rural and Farm Properties
Specifying a home energy storage system for a rural farm property is, in my experience, one of the toughest jobs in our whole industry. Out on the land the…
Home Energy Storage Smart Home Integration
Why Home Energy Storage Smart Home Integration Matters
I’m Karl Huang, Senior Lithium Battery Engineer at Horizon Power. Over the last few years I’ve spec’…
Home Energy Storage Bidirectional EV Charging
Why Your EV Is Becoming Part of Your Home Energy Storage System
When I first started specifying lithium battery packs for residential clients a decade ago,…