Base Power

“Our view is that we can land a megawatt, gigawatt of storage on the grid faster and more cost-effectively than the centralized utility scale developers. And for what it's worth, faster and more cost-effectively than a gas plant or a coal plant.”

“You can break apart the insulation. You can have a truck driver show up, do the racking, stacking, and mounting mount a box to the wall where the hot work happens, and then an electrician shows up the next day and does the hot work in, you know, 30 minutes. An…”

“We are deploying megawatts in Texas very quickly like on the order of 20 megawatts a month.”

“Base is a relatively young company, but they're moving very fast, and just yesterday actually announced possibly the largest Series C in history, certainly the largest in the energy space. They raised a billion dollars, with a B, At a four billion dollar post-…”

“When you sign up with base, you get a 25 or 50, if you offer two kilowatt hour system on your home, that is all yours to use when the grid goes out for 19 dollars a month for the 25 kilowatt hour system and 29 dollars a month for the 50 kilowatt hour system. S…”

“On the hardware side, we're designing and manufacturing our own batteries.”

“We think by this time next year we'll be deploying on the order of a hundred megawatts a month.”

“When volatility is high, people want to build a lot of batteries, and a lot of batteries presumably dampen volatility, and when volatility is low, people don't want to build a lot of batteries... Load growth is likely to still march up. Solar additions are lik…”

“We've got on the order of 5000 of these batteries in the ground actually 5000 homes, and so it's more batteries, because a lot of them have two. We have had, in our direct business, we have had one customer”

“There's a second business, which is we are a technology provider to the utilities, and, you know, two-thirds of the country, as you know, is a regulated market where there are incumbent utilities that have kind of service territories and monopolies, and we are…”

“We guarantee 20% of the capacity of the battery to the customer no matter what.”

“Our next generation product, which we can talk about, is a 40 kilowatt hour system that we also will install in parallel, getting you to 80 kilowatt hours.”

“You may remember I had Zach Dell, the founder of Base, on the pod a few months ago, just right in the wake of their billion-dollar fundraise to go deploy residential batteries throughout the country.”