Home Energy Storage Cybersecurity
Why a Home Energy Storage System Is Now a Network Device
When I started designing lithium battery packs for residential use more than a decade ago, a home…
Semi-Solid State Battery Pouch Heat Sealing and Degassing
At Horizon Power we build semi-solid state cells in both prismatic and pouch formats, and after years on the pilot line I can say the pouch route lives or…
Sodium-Ion Battery for Golf Cart and Low-Speed EV Fleets
Golf carts and low-speed electric vehicles live a harder life than their gentle reputation suggests. I am Karl Huang, Senior Lithium Battery Engineer at Ho…
IEEE 1547 Interconnection Requirements for Home Energy
As a Senior Lithium Battery Engineer at Horizon Power, I have watched more than a few homeowners sit through the moment their brand new home energy storage…
Semi-Solid State Battery Current Collector Foil Selection
Every electrode in a lithium battery does two jobs: store lithium, and hand the electron to the outside circuit. The first job gets all the attention in ce…
Battery Solution Performance for Towers
Tower sites have a habit of punishing battery systems. Whether it is a telecom tower on a ridge line, a mobile light tower on a highway project, or a commu…
Sodium-Ion Battery Teardown and Field Service Repair
When a sodium-ion battery pack comes back from a duty cycle that did not go as planned, the fastest path to a root cause is not a datasheet. It is a teardo…
Lithium Battery for Mobility Scooters and Powered
When I started designing lithium battery packs for powered mobility aids in 2014, most scooters still ran on sealed lead-acid blocks that weighed more than…
Home Energy Storage Communication Protocols Explained
When a homeowner asks me why their new battery will not charge, nine times out of ten the problem is not the cells. It is the conversation between the batt…
Sodium-Ion Battery Grid Interconnection and Inverter Sizing
When a customer asks me to size a grid-tied sodium-ion battery system, the inverter is almost never the first thing I calculate. The first thing is the int…