Pila Wins Red Dot Award

Pila won a Red Dot Award. And an iF Design Award alongside it.

Two of the most recognized names in product design, both pointed at the same thing: a home battery that's meant to belong in your home.

We didn't start Pila to win design awards. We started it because backup power has always assumed one very particular customer – a homeowner with a garage, a big electrical panel, and the patience for a professional install. Everyone else got left out. Renters. Old buildings. Apartments. Homes where the thing you actually need to keep running isn't the whole house, but the fridge, the Wi-Fi, or a medical device.

So we asked a different question: what would a battery look like if it were designed to live in your home, not your utility closet?

We wrote about that decision earlier this year in our blog: Designing Pila.

The short version: we worked with Bould Design to build something that feels like it belongs – a precision aluminum enclosure that can lay flat, stand upright, or mount on a wall, with a built-in screen so you can actually see what's going on during stressful outages.

But the design that matters most is the part you can't see. Pila batteries find each other and coordinate over our Battery Mesh Network – plug one in, and it joins the system. No rewiring. No electrician. No Wi-Fi passwords punched in over and over. That's design too, even though it's invisible.

Red Dot and iF are juried by international panels that sort through thousands of products a year. Winning both tells us the idea lands – serious infrastructure can also be something you're proud to have sitting in your kitchen.

Thank you to Fred and the Bould team for building this with us, and for proving energy products can be both beautifully human and uncompromisingly serious.