Insights
Writing about the problem, not about us.
Manufacturer blogs are usually news — a trade show, an award, a milestone. None of that helps an engineer at 4 p.m. trying to decide whether a 100Ah cell survives their duty cycle.
This is the editorial program, in publishing order. Nothing has gone live yet, and rather than fill the page with placeholder posts we are showing you exactly what is queued. Each piece ends at one useful next step, never at a dead end.
The program
Eight clusters, ordered by how close each one sits to a decision.
Cluster one is first because a carrier deciding between a like-for-like lead-acid replacement and a technology change is making that decision this quarter. Cluster eight is last because it is education, and education matures on a longer schedule.
LFP against VRLA at remote and telecom sites
Truck rolls, total cost per site, cycle life under real cabinet temperatures, and the arithmetic that decides whether a replacement is a like-for-like or a technology change.
For: Carriers, tower operators, field engineering
Battery sizing for cell sites and distributed infrastructure
How to go from a load profile and a runtime requirement to a defensible capacity, including what temperature derating does to the answer and where the standard rules of thumb stop working.
For: RF and site engineering, network operations
BESS component architecture, in five parts
Battery modules, BMS, PCS, thermal management, and safety and fire protection — what each one does, what happens when a proposal omits one, and how to tell which party ends up carrying the gap.
For: Developers, EPCs, owner's engineers
UL 9540, UL 9540A, UN 38.3 and NFPA 855, without the conflation
Which of these is a listing, which is a test method, which governs installation, and which one your plan reviewer will actually name. The most commonly misrepresented set of documents in the industry.
For: Anyone taking a system to a US plan reviewer
C-rate and thermal selection for pack designers
Choosing between a 1C storage cell and a 20C power cell without oversizing for the wrong variable, and what the discharge curve tells you that the headline capacity does not.
For: OEM pack designers, integrators
Air against liquid cooling, and where the trade turns
Cell-to-cell temperature spread as the real driver of pack life, the cost and complexity liquid cooling actually adds, and the density above which air stops being the cheaper answer.
For: Storage developers, thermal engineers
Lithium supply chain and lead-time reality
What actually determines a quoted lead time, why tariff exposure is quarter-specific rather than a fixed percentage, and how to build a schedule that survives a supplier missing a date.
For: Procurement, project management
Data center power density and the battery layer
800V HVDC distribution, integrated storage against standby backup, immersion cooling, and moving the battery layer out of the white space. Education tier — no purchase path.
For: Data center design and facilities
Editorial rules
Four constraints, written down so they can be held against us.
Every number has a source
If a figure appears in an article, it traces to a published document, a test report, or a named project. No industry-average statistics invented to make a paragraph land.
Every claim survives being false
The test we apply before publishing: would this argument still work if the claim were untrue? If the persuasion depends on the reader not checking, it does not go out.
Reviewed by engineering, not by marketing
A technical article that engineering has not read is a liability. Every piece is checked by someone who would have to defend it on a call.
One next step, never a dead end
Each article ends at the single most useful thing the reader could do next — a spec pack, a sizing call, the newsletter, or the phone number. Not all four.
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Questions
About this program.
Why does this page list a program instead of articles?
Because there are no published articles yet and we are not going to put placeholder posts on a site whose entire argument is that our numbers are real. This is the editorial program as it stands, in the order it will publish. When a piece goes live it appears here with a date.
What is the publishing cadence?
Four to eight pieces a month once the program starts, written to a consistent technical voice and reviewed by engineering before publication. The clusters publish in commercial-intent order, which is why LFP against VRLA at remote sites is first and data center power is last.
Will these be product articles?
No. An article about our product is a brochure with paragraphs. These are about problems — sizing, code pathways, thermal trade-offs, lead-time risk — and each one ends by pointing at the one next step that is genuinely useful, which is sometimes a spec pack and sometimes just the phone number.
Why publish a compliance explainer that might reflect badly on us?
Because the UL 9540 against UL 9540A distinction is the single most misrepresented thing in this industry, and being the company that explains it correctly is worth more than being the company that benefits from the confusion. Our own certification position is stated plainly on the product pages for the same reason.
How do I get these?
Subscribe below and they arrive by email. Or call an engineer instead — a fifteen-minute call usually beats an article for a specific question, and there is no article that will tell you whether your particular UPS can take lithium.