Tim Hade

Senior Vice President, Voltus · 2 appearances on the record.

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Tim Hade is a clean energy entrepreneur who co-founded Scale Microgrids and commercial battery software startup Brightfield AI. He joined virtual power plant platform Voltus as SVP after Voltus acquired Brightfield.

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10 supported 1 partly supported 0 contradicted 3 not yet assessed 8 not checkable as stated how the 22 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

6 predictions · 16 assertions · 4 opinions · 3 insights · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 22 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 11 are resolved, 3 are not yet assessed, and 8 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Tim argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

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Hade: Utility scale is 90% of US battery growth and C&I is virtually zero

“Of that, you know, roughly 40 gigawatts of storage that's been added to the grid over the last five years something like 90% of it is utility scale, and 10% is residential, and if you add 90 and 10, that gets to a hundred, which means that basically nothing is…”

Tim Hade Jul 30, 2026 ▶ 4:25 The commercial battery comeback

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What they said30 Episodes2

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Hade: Standardized, off-the-shelf microgrid purchasing is probably a decade away

“I think that's the goal of everyone in the industry is to try to make it as easy to buy a microgrid as an air conditioning. I don't know, we're probably like a decade away from that”

Tim Hade Oct 26, 2023 ▶ 35:57 The market for microgrids

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Hade: US grid storage grew from under 2 GW to 40 GW

“I think going into twenty-twenty, there was less than two gigawatts of total storage on the U.S. Grid. As of twenty-twenty-five, that number is like 40 gigawatts.”

Tim Hade Jul 30, 2026 ▶ 4:05 The commercial battery comeback

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Hade: Much of US battery storage qualifies for 50% tax credits

“Which is, you get a 30% base ITC. If you have domestic content, you meet the domestic content requirements, you're still eligible for a 10% adder, and if you deploy that storage system in an energy community, you get an additional 10% adder on top of that. So …”

Tim Hade Jul 30, 2026 ▶ 22:23 The commercial battery comeback

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Hade: Most data centers globally use diesel generators for backup power

“Most data centers in the world today, those backup power generation devices are diesel generators, right? Increasingly, they're becoming natural gas generators, but for most data centers, they're diesel generators.”

Tim Hade Oct 26, 2023 ▶ 7:00 The market for microgrids

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Hade: Four components comprise most microgrids deployed today

“Solar storage, switchgear, and dispatchable generation assets, and some combination of those come together to, you know, create most microgrids that are being deployed in the market today.”

Tim Hade Oct 26, 2023 ▶ 10:48 The market for microgrids

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Hade: Switchgear lead times surged from 20 to 60-70 weeks post-COVID

“Which is typically, like, 20 week lead times on Switchgear. That was kind of what the market was before COVID. Today, it's more like 60 to 70 weeks.”

Tim Hade Oct 26, 2023 ▶ 12:50 The market for microgrids

Appearances (2)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
The commercial battery comeback	Jul 30, 2026	26m
The market for microgrids	Oct 26, 2023	25m

Tim Hade

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