Lithium Battery for Shore Power and Marina Berths
I have spent enough nights on marina docks with a clamp meter to know the pattern. A harbour expands its berths, owners fit bigger chargers, and one summer…
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…
Sodium-Ion Battery for Utility Peak Shaving
Peak shaving looks like the easiest assignment you can give a battery. Charge while the grid is quiet, discharge while the feeder is loaded, and let the me…
Battery Solution for Controlled Environment Agriculture
I am Karl Huang, and for the last twelve years my team and I have been designing lithium cells and packs for applications where a flat battery is not an in…
Home Energy Storage and EV Charger Load Balancing
I have lost count of how many times a customer has called me after the electrician left. The panel was full, the utility had quoted a four-figure service u…
Home Energy Storage Performance for Apartments (3)
Why Apartment-Scale Energy Storage Performance Is a Different Engineering Problem
Apartment energy storage does not behave like a single-family home batter…
Sodium-Ion Battery Performance for Microgrids: Round-Trip
Over the past decade I have commissioned more microgrid battery systems than I can count — island resorts in Southeast Asia, mining camps in Inner Mongoli…