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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.”
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 …”
Schendel: Solar and wind plus storage will structurally undercut fossil fuels
“Well, actually the marginal cost of wind and solar plus storage is just going to be lower than the marginal cost of coal and natural gas.”
Schendel outlines Base Power's ambition for a fifty-state nationwide expansion
“Build critical infrastructure for the country, and what that looks like is being in all 50 states going up the stack into utility infrastructure, going down the stack into the home and building more products and services to lower costs and increase reliability…”