Home Energy Storage for Workshops: Loads, Sizing and Safety
My shop is a 700 square foot detached building with a 100 amp subpanel, a 3 HP dust collector, a 5 HP two-stage compressor, a cabinet saw, a 200 amp MIG we…
Home Energy Storage for Retirement Homes: Sizing and Uptime
I have commissioned energy storage in houses, small offices and licensed care buildings. The care buildings humble you. Every residential design assumption…
Home Energy Storage for Remote Lodges: Sizing and Uptime
I have commissioned battery systems at three remote wilderness lodges over the past five years, and every one taught me the same lesson: a lodge is not a b…
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…
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…
Home Energy Storage Winter Performance and Derating
I install home energy storage in cold-climate homes and every November my service inbox fills with the same three questions: “Why does my battery die at th…
Home Energy Storage Tax Credits and Incentive Programs
I have spent eleven years specifying residential and light commercial lithium battery systems, and the single most expensive mistake I see has nothing to d…
Home Energy Storage Monitoring Apps and Data Tracking
I have commissioned several hundred residential systems, and I can tell you exactly which phone call I get most often. It is not about capacity, and it is…
Home Energy Storage in Hot Attics and Garages
Every residential installer has the same conversation weekly: “can we put the home energy storage battery in the garage, or up in the attic?” The answer is…