Schendel: Utility-scale grid battery interconnection takes five to ten years
Zach Schendel · Base Power's $200M Series B | Co-Led by Lee Fixel, A16Z, Lightspeed, & Valor Equity Partners · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea · Apr 9, 2025 · at 14:06
Base Power co-founder Zach Schendel explains the regulatory and physical infrastructure constraints limiting utility-scale battery deployments.
0:00 / 0:02exact quote · 2.5s
▶ Watch the full episode on YouTube → 720p mp4 · rendered on demand · StarZero watermark
“So it takes five to 10 years to get a battery good connected.”
quote is from the automated transcript, cleaned for reading: filler sounds and stutters are removed, nothing is rephrased. names can be misheard (the analysis reads context, assessments check outside sources). how →
More from Zach Schendel
Schendel: The energy industry lacks a disruptive equivalent to SpaceX or Anduril
“I think the energy industry is actually in a pretty similar spot That the aerospace industry or the defense industry was in, in, in the last decade. The difference is that the energy industry doesn't have a SpaceX and it doesn't have an Android role. And we st…”
Base Power cuts home battery installation times from months to weeks
“So today, if you go buy a home battery it's probably gonna take you two to six months to get that battery on your home. We can get a battery on a home. You know, it varies by permitting requirements from the local municipality, but on the order of two to four …”
Base claims it will be America's fastest battery developer by summer 2025
“By the summer we'll be deploying at twice the rate. So we'll be the fastest battery developer in the country in, in, in the next, you know, three months.”
Base Power vertically integrates hardware, software, operations, and direct-to-homeowner sales
“We develop battery technology. We deploy the hardware. We own it. We operate it. We sell power directly to homeowners. We install the batteries ourselves. We do the field service and operations and kind of everything, all parts of the stack to build out a flee…”
Schendel: Texas power grid is a canary in the coal mine for America
“That said, we think that Texas in a lot of ways is the canary in the coal mine for the rest of the country. And as a lot of the rest of the country moves into a load profile that looks a lot more like Texas, the demand for batteries in those states will go up …”