electron merchant @basepowerco | Energy + AI Previously @Tesla, @PNNLab
Austin, TX
Joined September 2022
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450MW of distributed batteries represents a meaningful portion of CoServ's peak load management. Nothing like this has ever been built at this scale, integrated into an existing power system.
It's an incredible opportunity to work with CoServ building the grid of the future on the foundations of a century's worth of power systems engineering. – at Hornsby Bend, TX
Eight months in, we’re expanding our partnership with @CoServ to 450 MW of distributed capacity across the co-op’s service territory in Dallas–Fort Worth.
Base has already installed 75 MW at CoServ members’ homes, adding roughly 10 MW each month. The expansion builds on that momentum, giving CoServ a larger resource to dispatch during peak demand while more members receive affordable whole-home backup power.
Read the full announcement: businesswire.com/news/home/2…
I'm stuck in a Robotaxi standoff thanks @Waymo – at Rollingwood, TX
LinkedIn wealth advisors are war gaming the Anthropic IPO harder than SOUTHCOM in LatAm rn – at Onion Creek, TX
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I felt like a kid watching this.
Every kid that didn't pay attention in class, drawing pictures of what they'll build--to one day go on and become an engineer--dreams of working at places like this.
Called my dad. Talked about when we'd watch old reruns of Speed Racer, and the Mach 5 would jump over cars and canyons with those goofy hydraulic launchers. Joked about rigging some retractable circular saws to complete it. That was the car I would painstakingly draw, as if a genuine blueprint, rockets and all.
My own son looked at this in awe; the coolest thing he has ever seen. We'll talk about this car when he has his own kids.
This is a beautiful thing. – at Onion Creek, TX
We're your huckleberry – at Rollingwood, TX
We’re excited to announce our partnership with Central Georgia EMC, deploying 50 MW of residential battery storage across the cooperative’s service territory. It’s our first utility partnership outside of Texas.
The program gives @CentralGAEMC a networked fleet it can dispatch 24/7, adding local capacity to support the grid. Members get automatic whole-home backup for $95, with no additional monthly costs.
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Reading this is speedrunning the last 2 years of interconnection chaos and I'm here for it – at Onion Creek, TX
Pretty much anything is cheaper than a VOLL of $100k+/MWh
Thanks for the opportunity to relentlessly nerd out about the future of the grid @joshdr83 – at Salt Lake City, UT
Hey y'all - check out the latest episode of the @txenergyandpowr podcast with @basepowerco's @cpatdowling where we talked about what Base is up to + a new study with Piq Energy looking at using DERs to alleviate grid constraints for large loads along with who might pay for it.
Nature and NeurIPS are being replaced by company blogs – at Onion Creek, TX
New on the Science Blog: Yes, Claude can do Nine Loops.
Theoretical physicists predict how particles behave using formulas called scattering amplitudes. These are notoriously hard to compute, so researchers work with layers of increasingly fine corrections called “loops”—each added loop makes the answer more precise but takes exponentially more computation. Most calculations stop at two or three loops. Eight loops was the previous record in a simplified model physicists use as a testing ground (planar N=4 super-Yang-Mills), set by SLAC's Lance Dixon and collaborators.
Last month, physicist and science writer @4gravitons issued a challenge: could an AI push past eight loops in this model, using only the compute budget an academic could reasonably access?
Given a single prompt describing the nine-loop problem, Claude ran largely unsupervised for days in Claude Science and solved it using methods developed by Dixon and his colleagues, at a total cost of a few thousand dollars. Dixon independently verified the result, and von Hippel wrote about the experience for our blog.
Read more: anthropic.com/research/yes-c…
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Heard behind me on a random connecting flight out of Charlotte.
"Have you heard of medium voltage DC grids?"
So bullish power systems. – at Alexandria, VA
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10 million Optimus humanoids with 2.3kWh battery packs is 23 GWh of storage.
Anyone got a production cost model inclusive of robot charging? – at Onion Creek, TX
@ERCOT_ISO is drafting a forthcoming phase 4 to the ADER program: form and dispatch aggregations at target transmission substations. Today @basepowerco is installing and energizing multiple MW of residential batteries per day. Here's a helpful summary of the mechanics and the benefit to the grid 🧵
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– at Rollingwood, TX
It's good to see the fine folk over at @basepowerco and piq energy treat the DERs helping interconnect datacenters question with a far greater than average level of seriousness and actually do a power flow study with the shift factors. A good starting point and more of this! @cpatdowling
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