Chris

TCU/UT 🐸🐂

[Nick Gray @nickgraynews]

I just had a huge home battery installed at my house in Austin, Texas

Now if the power goes out from a storm or the grid flickers my house never goes offline

It is a $15,000 device with a 40 kWh battery that gives whole-house power for up to 36 hours

But I only had to pay $695 due to a unique arbitrage opportunity

Base Power is a new American energy company founded by Zach Dell and Justin Lopas from Tesla and Anduril

This company usually makes money by installing the battery and then doing arbitrage on the electricity: they charge the battery at night when off-peak electricity rates are less expensive and then sell back that power to the grid at peak times. You can do this in Dallas and Houston areas now in Texas

But I’m in Austin, Texas and Austin Energy actually pays Base for dispatchable capacity. So Base makes money on the utility contract, sort of like a virtual power plant, and they can give me the battery for cheap

My electricity bill isn’t any less. I just get a huge backup battery for my house for way less than I’d pay for an old-fashioned gas generator

I bought this for peace of mind because I still have PTSD from the Texas ice storm in 2021 when we lost power for so many days. That sucked haha

In my mind it was either pay many thousands of dollars for a gas or diesel generator, or do Tesla solar (much more expensive but more benefits)

I did not even consider a battery backup because they are so expensive and the installation costs

But this was a no-brainer to do the Base Power thing for $695 plus they charge some $19 per month maintenance fee

If you ever want to stop they charge you $500 to remove it but there’s not really a contract otherwise

I hope they expand to more areas. For now I think it is mostly only in Texas. I’ll post my referral link below if you want to sign up and get $150 off

My neighbor works at Base and that’s how I heard about it

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@smcroasters Love this. Keep up the fight!

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@BobbyHowardOK 🥰

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Circling back here. @OldTakesExposed

[Seth Oliveras  @SethOliveras]

Gonna be quiet as hell around here after Texas loses to OU and A&M this season.

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@barstoolsports @boatinblake

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@mattufford It’s definitely WRs and speaking for the Seahawks I know it’s DK Metcalf 😂😂😂

[Bobby Howard @BobbyHowardOK]

OU isn’t Power 4 ready

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@BobbyHowardOK 🤝

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@TcuScouting @boatinblake

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@BobbyHowardOK Eye test

[Pac-12 Conference @pac12]

Seattle Forecast: CRIMSON REIGN

#GoCougs

[Chris @cilensti6]

@BobbyHowardOK WSU to Big Ten who says no?

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I WANNA LIVE FOREVER @cilensti6

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@BobbyHowardOK Vols Twitter is a cruel mistress