We're excited to announce that our partnership with GVEC is expanding across their full service territory, deploying 50 MW of residential battery storage across South Central Texas. This expansion builds on a successful pilot and enables GVEC to bring significantly more dispatchable capacity online, further demonstrating how the utility-led distributed storage model can scale rapidly across a cooperative's full footprint. Read the full announcement: https://lnkd.in/geCeq-hJ
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Base is building the future of American power. The grid is the largest, most complex machine in the world. But it’s aging, struggling to keep up with today’s demand, and is unprepared for our electrified future. Base is modernizing the grid as the first engineering-led, technology-driven power company. We’re deploying a nationwide network of distributed batteries that strengthens critical infrastructure and saves Americans money. Our team of engineers, operators, creatives, technicians, and electricians design and deploy systems at speed. If you want to tackle the problem that will define this century and shape the future of American energy, now is the time. Join us.
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- 201-500 employees
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- Austin, TX
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- 2023
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Today we're announcing Base Energy, a new electricity plan open to any Texan that can choose their provider, battery or not. Most Texans say they’re happy with their electricity provider. Our data shows 7 in 10 are overpaying and can save with our new plan. The reason is structural: our battery fleet generates revenue by supporting the Texas grid, and we pass those earnings back as a low, fixed rate that's guaranteed below market average, now and at renewal. Renters, apartment tenants, homeowners not yet ready for a battery: if you're in Texas and can choose your provider, you're eligible. Affordable, reliable power for all. That's the mission, and today we're a lot closer. See how much you could save at https://lnkd.in/gzRKVrab
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Base Power Company just revealed how it’s spending some of the $1 billion it raised in October. The startup’s plan is to build one of the nation’s largest fleets of home batteries for CoServ outside Dallas–Fort Worth. Base Power will work to install 100 megawatts of home battery capacity in the utility's territory over the next two years. That's a scale that matches a natural-gas-fired peaker plant — a type of small power plant that fires up when demand is highest. While building a new gas peaker could take around five years of permitting and construction, Base Power can deliver the capacity in two years by striking deals with homeowners and installing each system in a day, said Tim Pianta, the company’s head of utility partnerships.
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America has never had a power company worth rooting for. Zach Dell thinks that's the greatest opportunity in business today, and he's building Base Power Company around a single conviction: do to energy what SpaceX did to aerospace and Anduril did to defense. Today, Base operates across all four parts of the power stack: make, move, store, and sell. They are not building a premium product for wealthy homeowners but are building grid infrastructure to make electricity more affordable and reliable for everybody. In this conversation, Zach makes the case that the energy industry's decades of stagnation aren't a warning sign; they're an invitation, and the company willing to go after the entire stack at once is the one that wins.
The American energy grid runs at one-third of its capacity. Every single day. Zach Dell has spent the last three years trying to fix that. In this Generalist episode, he joins Mario Gabriele to explain why nobody did it sooner and what Base Power Company is doing differently. Here's what stayed with us from the episode: “We want to do to energy what SpaceX did to aerospace and Anduril did to defense.” “There's never really been a beloved brand in energy. And we have the opportunity to build the first one, and we take that super seriously.” “Base's hardest pain cave is in our future, not in our past. Things only get harder as the business gets bigger and more capable.” What would it take for you to trust a power company? Thank you to the partners who make this possible! - Granola: The app that might actually make you love meetings: https://granola.ai/mario - Brex: The intelligent finance platform: https://www.brex.com/mario
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We’re excited to announce a new agreement with CoServ, deploying 100 MW of residential battery storage across their North Texas service territory. The program is Base’s largest collaboration to date and one of the largest distributed residential energy storage programs led by a Texas electric cooperative. This marks Base’s fifth utility collaboration in Texas, building on a proven model for rapidly bringing new capacity online. Through the program, CoServ will dispatch the battery fleet to manage peak demand and strengthen grid reliability, while Members receive affordable whole-home backup power. Read the full announcement: https://lnkd.in/gkajnZA7 Learn how Base is working with utilities: https://lnkd.in/g8iSCDW9
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Inspiring day visiting our partner, Base, in Austin today. Working to optimize our system and avoid some infrastructure spend. Power up!
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Distributed energy storage is moving from concept to core grid infrastructure, and our partnership with El Paso Electric Company is a prime example of what that looks like in practice. In this interview with PV Magazine, Tim Pianta, Base Power Company's Head of Utility Partnerships, shares how we're helping utilities like EPE unlock flexible, customer-sited capacity faster and more cost-effectively than traditional buildouts. Read the full interview: https://lnkd.in/ghBkguN3 #DistributedEnergy #GridReliability #EnergyStorage #Utilities #DER
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Thanks to Liz Claman and Fox Business Network for having Zach Dell on yesterday to talk about Base's growth, our new partnership with El Paso Electric, and continued expansion.
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We’re excited to announce a new partnership with El Paso Electric Company, launching a pilot program that will use home battery systems to strengthen the electric grid during times of high demand. This program represents a scalable model for utilities seeking to add 24/7 dispatchable, demand-side capacity to the grid on significantly shorter timelines than traditional infrastructure buildout, supporting El Paso Electric in addressing local capacity constraints while improving customer resiliency. Read the full announcement: https://lnkd.in/gCePbazF
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Energy infrastructure can’t wait another decade. We’re building the next generation of power, now. Join us, we’re hiring: https://lnkd.in/gvq87B_3 Thanks to The Wall Street Journal and Jennifer Hiller.
Zach Dell aims to shore up the Texas power grid with an army of batteries installed one home at a time. 🔗 https://on.wsj.com/4rwNU1B The 29-year-old is the son of billionaire computer pioneer Michael Dell and the co-founder and chief executive of Base Power, a home-battery company that says it is adding over 50 customers a day in markets including Austin, Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston. Base Power has raised more than $1.3 billion from investors as battery storage is booming and grid-reliability issues are sending homeowners in frantic search of backup power. Utility customers across the country increasingly face less reliable service from a combination of severe weather and an aging electricity system, while federal regulators have warned that power demand is outpacing infrastructure development. Base Power describes itself as a subscription service. The company owns the batteries and acts as a retail power provider for its customers, offering what it promises will be a lower-than-average rate. If the lights go out, the batteries will power a home for a day or two, depending on the size of the installation. Its backers include Andreessen Horowitz, Alphabet’s CapitalG and Josh Kushner’s Thrive Capital—but not Michael Dell. “I wanted to do my own thing,” Zach Dell said.
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