Sodium-Ion Battery for Railway Crossing Signals
I am Karl Huang, Senior Lithium Battery Engineer at Horizon Power. For the past decade I have specified stationary batteries for safety-critical infrastruc…
Semi-Solid State Battery Second Life and Repurposing
As a senior lithium battery engineer at Horizon Power, I have spent the last decade watching the same pattern repeat across every new chemistry we ship. Th…
Lithium Battery Pack Vibration and Shock Qualification
As a lithium battery engineer I have watched more packs fail on a test shaker than from any chemistry defect. Vibration and shock are the quiet killers of…
Home Energy Storage for Multi-Generation Households
When three generations share one roof, the home stops being a simple electricity consumer and becomes a small, always-on critical facility. In my work as a…
Sodium-Ion Battery for Desalination and Off-Grid Water
Why Desalination Is Moving Off the Grid
Over the last three years I have watched a clear shift in how small and mid-sized water plants are being built. Com…
Lithium Battery for Grain Dryers and Farm Augers
At Horizon Power, we design lithium battery packs for some of the harshest off-grid workloads on Earth. Few applications test a pack harder than a Midwest…
Battery Solution for Mine Ventilation and Refuge Chambers
When a ventilation fan stalls underground, the clock starts. A single loss of primary power in a metalliferous or coal mine can let methane, diesel particu…
Home Energy Storage Flood Recovery: A Practical Guide
When the Water Recedes, the Real Risk Begins
I am Karl Huang, a senior lithium battery engineer at Horizon Power. Over the last decade I have stood in more…
Semi-Solid State Battery Cell Grading and Binning
Most pack failures I have investigated on the bench were not caused by a bad cell chemistry. They were caused by good cells that were simply not alike. Whe…
Sodium-Ion Battery for Pipeline Cathodic Protection
As a senior lithium battery engineer at Horizon Power, I have spent the last decade shipping cells into fleets that cannot afford a quiet failure. When pip…