Home Energy Storage Battery Passport and Resale Value
After most of a decade designing lithium battery packs for residential and light industrial customers, I have noticed that the first question serious buyer…
Smart Panel Load Shedding for Home Energy Storage
A smart panel turns a home energy storage system from a dumb backup box into an energy manager. The battery stores kilowatt-hours, but the panel decides wh…
Battery Solution for Cold Storage Room Backup
I have specified backup power for walk-in freezers, cold rooms, and chilled distribution hubs for eleven years, and the pattern never changes: the buyer as…
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…
Battery Solution for Rail Yard Shunting Equipment
Rail yards are the least glamorous and most abusive environment in the rail industry. Shunting engines start, accelerate, brake, and idle hundreds of times…
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…
Battery Solution for Water Treatment Pumping Stations
Pumping stations are the least photographed asset in a water utility and the one that punishes a power outage fastest. A treatment plant can coast for twen…
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…