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Lopez: Competing home batteries target wealthy buyers and neglect the grid
“So if you look at other competitive battery products that are like sold mostly to wealthy people at very high costs, they're like small, typically wall mounted, take a long time to install and aren't really focused on supporting the grid.”
Lopez: Base Power acts as a retail energy provider without requiring batteries
“So outside of batteries, and we offer this without a battery, you can sign up for our service and we sell you power. So if you use, you know, a thousand kilowatt hours in the month, we sell you a thousand kilowatt hours and that's what we bill you for. And on …”
Lopez: Base Power batteries offer 40 kWh capacity, triple traditional home units
“So it's a 40 kilowatt hour system and 20 kilowatts on the inverter. This is like three times larger than what you would find in a traditional home battery.”
Lopez: Base Power aims to produce 4,000 home batteries weekly by year-end
“We're not there yet, but we'll be able to produce about 4000 of these units per week towards the end of the year, and so, like, that's like one every few minutes, which is very, very quick, and so,”
Lopez: Base Power install costs are identical for 5 or 40 kWh
“Our install costs are basically the same whether or not we install, you know, five or 40 kilowatt hours.”
Lopez: Base Power home batteries are designed to survive total floodwater submersion
“This can be submerged in water if we don't, obviously don't desire it to be, but if you're in Houston or somewhere on the coast in Florida if it floods, you're totally fine.”
Lopez: Base Power currently installs more than 100 home batteries per day
“Right now we're installing over a hundred a day, and we're gonna hopefully double that here pretty soon.”
Lopez: Base Power built its Austin production line in under six months
“So we moved in here in September, October of last year. But the production line really only got started, started getting built in February or March of this year. So like where we're standing right here, all of this, Is, is, you know, less than six months old.”
Lopez: Base Power employs 100 factory workers and plans second shift
“We've got about a hundred now. Yeah, we got about a hundred, and then we're gonna be starting a second shift.”
Lopez: Base Core eliminates wiring and conduit work with quick connects
“And so this actually has a quick connect on that disco inside and a quick connect here. So you don't have to do any wiring. You don't have to like cut and strip wire or fish it through conduit. All these things that like require a lot of skill sets and take a …”
Lopez: Utilities in regulated markets pay Base Power for home battery access
“And so in those markets, we partner with the utility. We still put the battery on the home. We own the battery, but the utility controls it, and then they pay us for access to the battery. So that's how we recoup, recoup the cost of the battery, so to speak, a…”
Lopez: Base Power designs home batteries for 15-year zero-touch operation
“So, like, we want to be able to install the thing for, you know, it takes, like, an hour or two, and then not touch it for 15 years, right?”
Lopez: Base Power wrote its own manufacturing execution software to control robots
“We also designed all of the software, so the MES, as it's called, Manufacturing Execution System. The software on all of the monitors is all what we've written that controls robots and controls the traceability and all this other stuff.”