Sodium-Ion Battery Fire Suppression and Detection Design
Fire protection for a battery room is usually specified by someone who has never watched a cell vent. I have, twice, in abuse testing, and both times the s…
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 Theme Parks and Attractions
Most discussions about power at a theme park start with the rides and end with the generator. The projects I get called into start elsewhere: the utility f…
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…
Lithium Battery Fire Code and Insurance Requirements
Last spring I sat in a conference room with a plant manager, a fire marshal, and a property underwriter, all looking at the same 1.2 MWh lithium battery s…
Lithium Battery Thermal Runaway Prevention in Storage Rooms
I am Karl Huang, Senior Lithium Battery Engineer at Horizon Power. Over the last decade I have walked through more than a hundred battery storage rooms, fr…
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 Testing for Apartments: Riser-Shaft
My name is Karl Huang, and I am a senior lithium battery engineer at Horizon Power. Between 2018 and 2025 I personally witnessed or co-signed off on the…
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 Fire Safety Codes by Region
Why Fire Codes Matter for Home Battery Systems
When I spec a home energy storage system for a client, the chemistry and the kilowatt-hours get all the atte…