Energy startup Base Power, co-founded by Zach Dell, secured $1 billion in funding at a $13 billion valuation to install residential batteries in Texas and Chicago, helping stabilize power grids strained by AI data centers.
Base Power, a home battery storage startup, secured $1 billion in Series D funding, valuing the company at $13 billion. It's expanding its backyard battery installations, now at 500 MWh, and launched Base Core, a new 39.2 kWh home battery, to meet surging electricity demand in Texas and Illinois.
Energy storage startup Base Power began selling its large home battery systems in Illinois, marking its entry into the PJM Interconnection grid. This expansion aims to address rising electricity demand, particularly from data centers, by creating a virtual power plant with residential batteries.
South Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT and the Korea Aerospace Administration are discussing the utilization of 'heat pipe reactors,' a type of micro modular reactor (MMR), as a potential cooperation agenda with the US, particularly for lunar base power generation.
