Industrial Battery Solution Procurement Checklist
Over the last twelve years as a senior lithium battery engineer, I have sat on both sides of the procurement table. I have written requests for quotation (…
Battery Solutions for Marine and RV Applications
When I started at Horizon Power a decade ago, my first field job was a 38-foot catamaran whose owner had wired three flooded lead-acid banks in series and…
Battery Solution Design for Off-Grid Telecom Towers
As a senior lithium battery engineer at Horizon Power, I have deployed battery solution systems to some of the most inaccessible places on the map—ri…
Sodium-Ion Battery for Grid-Scale Storage
As a senior lithium battery engineer at Horizon Power, I have spent a decade specifying lithium packs for everything from drones to homes, and I will be th…
Lithium Battery State of Charge Calibration Best Practices
As a senior lithium battery engineer at Horizon Power, I have lost count of how many “faulty” battery packs were returned to us with nothing ac…
Drone Battery Safety: Preventing Thermal Runaway in Flight
As a senior lithium battery engineer at Horizon Power, I have spent more years than I care to count on the failure bench—cutting open swollen packs,…
Battery Export Certifications
As a senior lithium battery engineer at Horizon Power, I have watched more than one promising export shipment get turned away at a border because a single…
Home Battery Maintenance and Lifespan
As a senior lithium battery engineer at Horizon Power, I have watched homeowners celebrate a new home energy storage installation and then forget about it…
Home Energy Storage Inverter Selection
As a senior lithium battery engineer at Horizon Power, I have commissioned dozens of residential systems, and the inverter is consistently the component ho…
Battery Selection for Multirotor vs Fixed-Wing Drones
As a senior lithium battery engineer at Horizon Power, I have spent the better part of a decade on the test bench watching the same mistake repeat itself:…