Imagine being able to go to your neighborhood hub to charge your car when the power is out. That’s what one California tech enthusiast has envisioned.
Anurag Kamal, co-founder of ElectricFish—a Bay Area startup focused on resilient energy infrastructure—told EpochTV’s “Bay Area Innovators” program that he believes community-scale batteries with backup power will transform the electrical grid.
The battery the company produces is six feet by four feet and provides ultra-fast charging for electric vehicles (EVs), and the company also developed its own software. The main goal is to provide backup energy that can deliver electricity hundreds of miles away in five minutes, Kamal said.
“The software is able to directly talk to electrical utility servers, can use existing data to plan for when exactly an electrical outage will happen, and can have the energy stored and feed energy back in the times the electrical grid is having a crisis or a ‘flex alert’ event which happens in the Bay Area,” he said.
Kamal said there are two types of battery. One is a 40-kilowatt battery that can power up to 40 homes for about a day. The second one is a 100-kilowatt battery that can power 80 to 90 homes. The battery gets recharged by the sun or from the grid. […]
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