Sodium-Ion Battery Testing for Microgrids: Low-Temperature
I have spent the last six years signing off sodium-ion battery testing reports for islanded and grid-tied microgrids, from a 240 kWh village system in Inne…
Sodium-Ion Battery Design for Street Lights: Cold-Start
I still remember the first time I pulled a failed lead-acid brick out of a street-light pole in Tianjin, twenty-three years ago. The acid had wicked up the…
Sodium-Ion Battery Cost Optimization for Forklifts (3)
Walk into a 250,000-square-foot distribution center at 2 a.m. and you can still hear the hydraulic whine of pallet jacks and the click of a battery-room wa…
Sodium-Ion Battery Reliability for Backup Power: Standby
Every backup power project I have scoped in the last two years eventually arrives at the same uncomfortable question from the client: “If this cabinet jus…
Sodium-Ion Battery Performance for Microgrids: Grid-Forming
Why Sodium-Ion Chemistry Now Matters to Microgrid Operators
I have been commissioning microgrid storage for rural cooperatives, mine camps and island resor…
Sodium-Ion Battery Testing for Microgrids: Grid-Forming
Over the last four years I have commissioned and validated more than thirty microgrid energy storage systems, and roughly half of the newer builds now use…
Sodium-Ion Battery Design for Street Lights: Cell Format
Most off-grid street-lighting tenders I worked on ten years ago were answered with lead-acid. The packs lasted three winters, the cabinets rusted, and the…
Sodium-Ion Battery Cost Optimization for Forklifts (2)
In eleven years of specifying motive power for warehouse fleets, I have watched purchasing departments obsess over one number: the sticker price of the ba…
Sodium-Ion Battery Reliability for Backup Power (2)
Over the past eleven years I have specified, tested, and commissioned backup power systems on three continents, and the failure reports I keep on my shelf…
Sodium-Ion Battery Performance for Microgrids: Round-Trip
Over the past decade I have commissioned more microgrid battery systems than I can count — island resorts in Southeast Asia, mining camps in Inner Mongoli…