Base Power, a Texas-based home battery company, has unveiled an ambitious plan to reshape the energy grid using small-scale, distributed batteries.
According to Canary Media, the “battery juggernaut” is spending some of the $1 billion it raised in October to build out one of the largest home battery fleets in America for a utility cooperative outside Dallas-Fort Worth.
Battery companies and solar projects have made progress competing with fuel-reliant power plants, but they often run into a key limitation: scale. Base Power aims to tackle that challenge directly by building out 100 megawatts of distributed home battery capacity over the next two years.
That capacity is roughly equivalent to a natural gas peaker plant. But while building a gas plant can take about five years, Base Power said it can reach the same level in just two years…