Sodium-Ion Battery Testing for Microgrids: Grid-Forming
Over the last four years I have commissioned and validated more than thirty microgrid energy storage systems, and roughly half of the newer builds now use…
Sodium-Ion Battery Design for Street Lights: Cell Format
Most off-grid street-lighting tenders I worked on ten years ago were answered with lead-acid. The packs lasted three winters, the cabinets rusted, and the…
Sodium-Ion Battery Cost Optimization for Forklifts (2)
In eleven years of specifying motive power for warehouse fleets, I have watched purchasing departments obsess over one number: the sticker price of the ba…
Sodium-Ion Battery Reliability for Backup Power (2)
Over the past eleven years I have specified, tested, and commissioned backup power systems on three continents, and the failure reports I keep on my shelf…
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…
Sodium-Ion Battery Deployment for Microgrids (Guide)
I have spent the better part of a decade specifying lithium and sodium battery systems for off-grid and weak-grid sites, and microgrids remain the applicat…
Sodium-Ion Battery Integration for Street Lights (2)
Why Sodium-Ion Is a Serious Fit for Solar Street Lights
Solar street lights live in the worst possible neighbourhood for a battery: a sealed pole-top enclo…
Sodium-Ion Battery Manufacturing for Backup Power: Yield,
I have spent the last four years walking sodium-ion battery manufacturing lines side by side with our production managers, and the conversations we keep ha…
Sodium-Ion Battery Testing for Microgrids: An Engineer’s
If you are commissioning a microgrid today, the cheapest mistake you can make is to treat a sodium ion battery the way you would treat a lithium iron phosp…
Sodium-Ion Battery Design for Street Lights: An Engineer’s
Why Street Lights Are the Quiet Success Story of Sodium-Ion
I have spent eleven years designing battery packs for off-grid applications, and three years ag…