Home Energy Storage for Rural Fire and Water Districts
I have spent a good part of my field time on the far end of rural feeders: volunteer fire halls at the end of a two-mile spur line, pump houses sitting alo…
Home Energy Storage Thermal Envelope for Cold Basements
I have lost count of how many home energy storage systems I have walked into that were installed in exactly the same place: an unfinished basement, on a po…
Home Energy Storage Interconnection Agreements and Queues
Most home energy storage projects I review do not fail on cell chemistry, weld quality, or inverter sizing. They fail on paperwork. I have signed off on se…
Home Energy Storage Sump Pump and Basement Backup
Basements flood for boring reasons. A sump pump that has run without complaint for three years quits at two in the morning because the float switch caught…
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…