When a battery cell heats up a lot, it can propagate to its neighboring cell and usually they do propagate on the cell level and not the battery storage unit level, but Viridi Parente has figured out how to not have cell propagation and has gone through the UL 9540A fire testing to prove it. They are working on a residential battery that will be “listed and labeled for use in habitable spaces” which nobody has ever successfully done to the best of my knowledge. This means that you would not have to follow the 2024 International Residential Code (2021 IRC with different wording), which means they can put as much as they want in any room in a house, once this is a done deal, which will probably happen in the first quarter of 2026.


 


Here it is in the IRC:


https://up.codes/viewer/mississippi/irc-2024/chapter/3/building-planning#R330.1


 


This is big news that could revolutionize energy storage.


 


Viridi Parente has two factories in historical places. The Ford Motor building in Richmond CA where Rosie the Riveter worked and was photographed during WW2 and also the other factory in Buffalo NY was a GM factory built in 1920 which was also building tanks for WW2, so besides kicking Nazi’s butts, these buildings will help with the modernization of the grid.


 


Jon and Sean also talk about virtual power plants (VPPs) and the internet of things (IoT). They cover how using energy storage can lead to a lot less current on wires and how you can run 40 houses on a single 200A service with the right amount of energy storage and coordination.


 


Topics covered:


Viridi Parente www.viridiparente.com


Nikola Tesla


George Westinghouse


AC = Alternating Current


DC = Direct Current


HVDC = High Voltage Direct Current


Arc Lighting


Electric AC Lighting


Devil in the White City (Historical Fiction Book)


Thomas Edison


Battery


Inverter


Pack System


UL Listing


UL 9540A


Preventing Cell to Cell Propagation


Sewage Lift Station


Rosie the Riveter


Transmission And Distribution Deferral


ESS = Energy Storage System


Jigar Shah


EV = Electric Vehicle


Energy Density


LFP = Lithium Iron Phosphate


NMC = Lithium Nickel Manganese Cobalt Oxide


Thermal Runaway


Cheese Cloth Test


IRC = International Residential Code


VPP = Virtual Power Plant


IoT = Internet of Things


Balcony Solar


18650 Battery


CSA = Canadian Standards Association


EV Charging


California Olympics


Tax Credit


Energy Revolution


 


Reach out to Jon Williams Here:


LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/jon-m-williams


Viridi Parente www.viridiparente.com


 


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