Home Energy Storage Performance for Small Offices
Small professional offices are the most misunderstood segment in the energy storage market. When a dentist, a two-lawyer firm, or a four-person design stud…
Home Energy Storage Performance for Townhouses
Fourteen attached units, one pad-mounted transformer, eleven identical 100 A services. That row of townhouses is why I stopped reusing my detached-house s…
Lithium Battery Fire Code and Insurance Requirements
Last spring I sat in a conference room with a plant manager, a fire marshal, and a property underwriter, all looking at the same 1.2 MWh lithium battery s…
Home Energy Storage Load Panel Upgrade Requirements
After a decade of sizing lithium battery systems for residential retrofits, I can tell you the most underestimated component in a home energy storage proj…
Sodium-Ion Battery Transport and UN38.3 Compliance
When the first batch of our 15S sodium-ion packs left the plant, the freight forwarder returned a checklist with one line highlighted: “UN 38.3 test summar…
Sodium-Ion Battery for Utility Peak Shaving
Peak shaving looks like the easiest assignment you can give a battery. Charge while the grid is quiet, discharge while the feeder is loaded, and let the me…
Lithium Battery Degradation Modeling and Warranty
After enough years on pack benches and warranty review calls, I have learned one uncomfortable truth: most lithium battery warranties are written from opti…
Lithium Battery for Airport Baggage and Cargo Handling
When an airline asks me to quote a lithium battery for airport baggage and cargo handling equipment, the conversation almost never starts with amp-hours….
Battery Solution for Seismic and Geological Monitoring
I have spent much of my career sizing battery packs for equipment nobody is supposed to visit, and seismic and geological monitoring stations sit at the fa…
Battery Solution for Exhibition and Trade Show Displays
Every show season I get the same call from exhibit houses: the booth design is signed off, the LED wall is ordered, and then someone reads the venue order…