Base Power Company

Base Power Company just revealed how it’s spending some of the $1 billion it raised in October. The startup’s plan is to build one of the nation’s largest fleets of home batteries for CoServ outside Dallas–Fort Worth. Base Power will work to install 100 megawatts of home battery capacity in the utility's territory over the next two years. That's a scale that matches a natural-gas-fired peaker plant — a type of small power plant that fires up when demand is highest. While building a new gas peaker could take around five years of permitting and construction, Base Power can deliver the capacity in two years by striking deals with homeowners and installing each system in a day, said Tim Pianta, the company’s head of utility partnerships.

We’re excited to announce a new agreement with CoServ, deploying 100 MW of residential battery storage across their North Texas service territory. The program is Base’s largest collaboration to date and one of the largest distributed residential energy storage programs led by a Texas electric cooperative. This marks Base’s fifth utility collaboration in Texas, building on a proven model for rapidly bringing new capacity online. Through the program, CoServ will dispatch the battery fleet to manage peak demand and strengthen grid reliability, while Members receive affordable whole-home backup power. Read the full announcement: https://lnkd.in/gkajnZA7 Learn how Base is working with utilities: https://lnkd.in/g8iSCDW9

Inspiring day visiting our partner, Base, in Austin today. Working to optimize our system and avoid some infrastructure spend. Power up!

Distributed energy storage is moving from concept to core grid infrastructure, and our partnership with El Paso Electric Company is a prime example of what that looks like in practice. In this interview with PV Magazine, Tim Pianta, Base Power Company's Head of Utility Partnerships, shares how we're helping utilities like EPE unlock flexible, customer-sited capacity faster and more cost-effectively than traditional buildouts. Read the full interview: https://lnkd.in/ghBkguN3 #DistributedEnergy #GridReliability #EnergyStorage #Utilities #DER

Thanks to Liz Claman and Fox Business Network for having Zach Dell on yesterday to talk about Base's growth, our new partnership with El Paso Electric, and continued expansion.

We’re excited to announce a new partnership with El Paso Electric Company, launching a pilot program that will use home battery systems to strengthen the electric grid during times of high demand. This program represents a scalable model for utilities seeking to add 24/7 dispatchable, demand-side capacity to the grid on significantly shorter timelines than traditional infrastructure buildout, supporting El Paso Electric in addressing local capacity constraints while improving customer resiliency. Read the full announcement: https://lnkd.in/gCePbazF

Energy infrastructure can’t wait another decade. We’re building the next generation of power, now. Join us, we’re hiring: https://lnkd.in/gvq87B_3 Thanks to The Wall Street Journal and Jennifer Hiller.

Base Power Company is looking for a power systems engineer to lead the way in re-imagining how the grid works, from the ground up. We are looking for a one-of-a-kind wayfinding engineer to help us tread new ground, build new systems, and design the grid of the future. https://lnkd.in/gpM9Pa3d

This past weekend, Winter Storm Fern brought extreme weather from Texas to the eastern seaboard, and Base Power showed what distributed batteries can do: intelligence and resilience closer to homes, stabilizing the grid during peak stress and protecting families when outages hit. While our members dripped faucets and stocked up on supplies, we charged the battery fleet and had our engineering and operations teams ready to support. The storm ended up being less destructive in Texas than five years ago. Even so, we backed up over 350 grid outages, delivering 10 total days of backup power. Across the fleet, we had 10,000 days of backup power standing by if the grid went down. Other parts of the country saw a different outcome. Hundreds of thousands lost power from Tennessee to New York and PJM energy prices hit near record peaks. A reminder that extreme weather and grid reliability are challenges that span the entire country. We're expanding to meet them. Moments like this past weekend are why we built Base: to support the grid during times of stress, and to keep Americans protected when it matters most.