Base Power

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Governor @JBPritzker's energy bill + @ComEd's pro-consumer policies pioneered a path for companies like Base to enter the market and offer affordable and reliable energy to the people of Illinois. We're delighted to bring Chicagoans whole-home batteries to back up your home, lower your costs, and support the @pjminterconnect grid!

Base Power is now live in Illinois, our first market outside of Texas. We've helped more than 20,000 Texas homeowners lower their energy bills and back up their homes. We're bringing that same model to Chicagoland, where energy supply rates surged nearly 50% last year and continue to climb. Learn more at BasePowerCompany.com/Illinois

We’re now recruiting electricians, warehouse associates, and drivers as we expand into Illinois. Base Power is a modern energy company delivering reliable, affordable power to neighborhoods in the Chicago area. We build and install high-performing battery systems to protect families from outages and lower their bills. You'll help fix the grid and keep the lights on. Come meet us at our open hiring event, where we'll share what we're building, walk through open roles, and run same-day interviews. Date: Friday, June 5, 10am-1pm Location: Midwest Coast Brewing - 2137 W Walnut St, Chicago, IL 60612 Registration link below.

We profiled the most hyped energy startup in America. Exclusive look inside the $4B startup, Base Power, with co-founders @JLopas & @ZachBDell A former SpaceX engineer & a Thrive capital investor, rebuilding American energy dominance. Trying to do what SpaceX did to NASA and Anduril to Lockheed. But for energy. Yep, a lot of ambition. So, what do they have to show for it? 0:00 Meet Zach & Justin: Raising $1.3B To Fix America's Grid 1:16 How The Grid Came 4 Minutes From Collapse 1:56 Zach: Why The U.S Desperately Needs A SpaceX for Energy 3:25 Justin Explain's Their Home Battery Installation 4:14 Why Thrive Capital Bet on Zach & Justin (feat. Avery Klemmer) 5:16 How Justin & Zach Met? (Anduril Factory Tour) 6:32 Zach’s Secret Co-founder Test on Justin 7:20 How Base Build Their Competitive MOAT... 10:34 Justin: “Everything you do more than once is a factory” 11:17 Zach: This Is How To Raise $1.3B from Tier-1 Funds... 13:38 How to Build An Elite Team & Culture 14:26 Zach: "I'm Never Stoked To Fire People, But..." 15:33 The Personal Cost of Being An Entrepreneur 16:35 Energy, China and America’s future 18:22 Unpacking The Chip on Zach's Shoulder 19:13 Zach: “I Am Not the CEO This Company Needs in 5 Years” 19:49 Sachin & Adam: Our 3 Biggest Takeaways

"So far, its model has worked especially well in Texas’ largely deregulated energy market where customers can choose their energy provider. But this year, the company began partnering with other utilities to deploy its batteries in regulated markets throughout the state, and it has sights on other parts of the country." time.com/article/2026/0…

Read the full announcement: businesswire.com/news/home/2026…

We're excited to announce that our partnership with GVEC is expanding across their full service territory, deploying 50 MW of residential battery storage across South Central Texas. This expansion builds on a successful pilot and enables GVEC to bring significantly more dispatchable capacity online, further demonstrating how the utility-led distributed storage model can scale rapidly across a cooperative's full footprint.

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Today we're announcing Base Energy, a new electricity plan open to any Texan that can choose their provider, battery or not. Most Texans say they’re happy with their electricity provider. Our data shows 7 in 10 are overpaying and can save with our new plan. The reason is structural: our battery fleet generates revenue by supporting the Texas grid, and we pass those earnings back as a low, fixed rate that's guaranteed below market average, now and at renewal. Renters, apartment tenants, homeowners not yet ready for a battery: if you're in Texas and can choose your provider, you're eligible. Affordable, reliable power for all. That's the mission, and today we're a lot closer.

Thanks to @mariogabriele and @thegeneralistco for having Zach on this week to talk about all things Base, grid, and American energy.

Read the full announcement: businesswire.com/news/home/2026… Learn how Base is working with utilities: basepowercompany.com/utilities

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.

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.

Distributed energy storage is moving from concept to core grid infrastructure, and our partnership with @ElPasoElectric is a prime example of what that looks like in practice. In this interview with PV Magazine, Tim Pianta, our 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: pv-magazine-usa.com/2026/02/19/bas…

5 years ago today, a major winter storm, Uri, plunged into the southcentral U.S. -- some of the coldest sustained weather in a century for Texas. A massive human and financial crisis ensued in the wake of the energy sector's failure to keep gas flowing and the lights on. 🧵