Home Energy Storage for Multi-Family Buildings
In fifteen years of designing stationary lithium battery systems, the projects I get called back to audit are almost never the single-family garage install…
Home Energy Storage Payback Period Calculation Guide
After twenty years of sizing lithium battery systems, I have reviewed hundreds of payback spreadsheets submitted by distributors and homeowners, and I woul…
Home Energy Storage Permits and Code Compliance
Between 2021 and 2025, my team either prepared or technically reviewed 214 permit submittal packages for residential battery projects across eleven jurisdi…
Home Energy Storage Design for Farms: Three-Phase Service
Most home energy storage guides are written for suburban homes with a 200 A single-phase panel and a few LED lights. Farms are a different animal. Over the…
Home Energy Storage Cost Optimization for New Homes: LFP
Why new builds are a different engineering problem
When I sit down with a builder in the first week of foundation work, the conversation about home energy…
Home Energy Storage Reliability for Cabins (2)
I have commissioned roughly 140 off-grid LFP cabins over the last nine years, and the single thing I have learned the hard way is that cabin reliability is…
Home Energy Storage Performance for Apartments: Night
Most of the home energy storage performance claims I get asked to review were written for detached houses with big roofs, big garages, and big loads. Apart…
Home Energy Storage Testing for Apartments: Shared-Corridor
Why Apartment Energy Storage Testing Demands a Different Playbook
I spend most of my week inside Horizon Power’s test hall, but a growing share of the pr…
Home Energy Storage Design for Farms: Irrigation Pump
I have spent the last eleven years designing lithium battery packs for residential and light-commercial projects, and no application punishes a copy-paste…
Home Energy Storage Cost Optimization for New Homes (3)
I have walked through probably forty new-construction homes in the last three years where the homeowner signed a storage contract after the drywall went u…