Scaling Distributed Energy Storage to Strengthen Texas’ Grid
Situation
Base Power is transforming how energy is generated, stored, and delivered across Texas by pairing large-scale residential battery storage with renewable energy sources. The company deploys 50kWh whole-home battery systems—significantly larger than typical residential installations—to provide reliable backup power while supporting a cleaner, more resilient grid. These batteries store excess energy during off-peak hours when power is abundant and inexpensive, then discharge during peak demand, reducing reliance on fossil-fuel-based power plants and addressing grid instability at scale.
Why Austin?
Base Power was founded in Austin at a moment when the city’s startup culture, talent base, and business environment aligned with the company’s ambition to disrupt one of the last largely undisrupted sectors of the economy: energy. Austin’s challenger mindset, access to capital, and strong university-driven talent pipeline enabled Base Power to assemble an early team capable of scaling rapidly. The city’s unique blend of close-knit community and big-city opportunity has helped attract employees who are drawn first by the mission and ultimately choose to stay for Austin itself, allowing the company to grow alongside the region.
“Energy touches everything—it flows through our homes, our schools, our factories, and our future. Austin embraces the startup challenger mentality, and that environment allowed us to build a strong team, a sustainable business, and stay in the fight to take meaningful market share across the energy ecosystem.”
— Zach Dell, Founder, Base Power
Outcome
Base Power is focused on continuing to scale its distributed energy model across Texas, strengthening grid reliability while enabling greater integration of renewable energy. By building a financially sustainable core business with a strong balance sheet and expanding deployment capacity, the company aims to play a long-term role in reshaping the energy ecosystem—supporting carbon reduction, grid resilience, and the transition to cleaner power at scale.
$1 Billion
4,000+ homes
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