🎙️ Pila on Everybody in the Pool Podcast: Plug-in Home Batteries for Everyone
Pila EnergyMost home batteries are built for one kind of customer: a homeowner with a garage wall, a permit, and an electrician on the calendar. That leaves out renters, condo owners, small businesses, and plenty of homeowners who don't want a construction project.
Cole joined Molly Wood on Everybody in the Pool, her climate solutions podcast, to talk about the alternative: a battery that plugs into a wall outlet and starts working tonight.
They cover a lot of ground:
- How Pila's battery nodes keep the fridge, the router, and medical equipment running through an outage
- Shifting energy use away from peak-rate hours to cut the bill without changing your habits
- Why Pila keeps working when the internet doesn't
- Durability and safety, and what it takes to design a battery that lives next to your couch
- How utility programs turn thousands of small batteries into a resource for the grid
- Distributed batteries as climate resilience infrastructure
Cole's time on Tesla Powerwall and at SPAN comes up too: a decade of watching great hardware stall at the install.
