Battery Solution Reliability for Sensors: How I Specify
Seven years ago I stood on a ridge in Inner Mongolia looking at a weather station that had gone dark for the third time in eighteen months. The anemomete…
Sodium-Ion Battery Maintenance for Backup Power
I have spent much of the last decade standing in front of backup power cabinets at 2 a.m., watching a discharge test run and hoping the numbers hold. Most…
Lithium Battery Deployment for UPS Systems
Over the last decade I have signed off on lithium battery deployment for UPS systems in facilities ranging from a two-cabinet edge closet to a multi-megawa…
Semi-Solid State Battery Maintenance for EV Packs
I have spent enough nights in a service bay next to an elevated van to know that the maintenance manual is where a battery programme’s promises get tested….
Battery Solution Performance for Robotics: A Senior
I am Karl Huang, Senior Lithium Battery Engineer at Horizon Power. Over the last decade I have specified, built and torn down battery solution designs for…
Sodium-Ion Battery Maintenance for Microgrids
I have spent the better part of two decades specifying, commissioning and then living with battery plants that nobody visits very often. A drone battery pa…
Lithium Battery Deployment for Solar Kits
I have commissioned lithium battery packs for off-grid solar kits on three continents — rural clinics, telecom huts, farm outbuildings and a fair num…
Home Energy Storage Deployment for New Homes
I have lost count of how many times a builder has called me after the drywall went up. The conversation is always the same: the homeowner wants a home en…
Semi-Solid State Battery Deployment for Storage
I have been on the customer side of enough stationary storage energisations to know that the riskiest hour of a semi-solid state battery project is not the…
Battery Solution Maintenance for Equipment
Maintenance is where most battery programmes quietly lose their money. I have spent more than a decade designing and field-supporting custom lithium batter…