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…
Battery Solution for Mobile Decontamination Units
When a chemical spill, an industrial accident, or a contagious-disease event forces a response team to set up washing lines in a parking lot, the equipment…
Lithium Battery Container Fire Suppression Retest
I have walked through more than sixty containerized lithium battery installations in the last eight years, and the same conversation repeats itself almost…
Battery Solution for Container Storage Retrofits
Why Retrofit an Existing Container Instead of Buying New
Over eleven years of specifying battery enclosures for telecom shelters, mining camps, and microgr…
Semi-Solid State Battery Silicon Anode Blending
When a customer asks us to raise the energy density of a semi-solid state battery without changing the cell footprint, the anode is where the leverage sits…
Semi-Solid State Battery Electrode Coating Uniformity
I have spent enough hours staring at coating gauges to say this plainly: on a semi-solid state battery line, electrode coating uniformity is where most of…
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…
Battery Solution for Trailers: Power, Charging and Uptime
A towed trailer is the only power platform I work on where the building moves, the utility disappears, and the load shows up before the wiring does. When a…
Lithium Battery for Traffic Signal Backup Power
I still remember the first intersection audit I ran with a city traffic crew. We pulled twenty cabinet doors in one day and found fifteen had battery backu…