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BE Brian Essenmacher On CleanTech Talk — Solar, Batteries, EVs, AI

“These are not for recreation anymore. They're really for load balancing from a utility perspective. … I really think this plug-in solar with storage is the next appliance in every home. A lot of utility companies are looking at potentially aggregating them, charging at one time and powering at another.”

CleanTech Talk — Solar, Batteries, EVs, AI · Climate & Energy · November 2026

“These are not for recreation anymore. They're really for load balancing from a utility perspective. … I really think this plug-in solar with storage is the next appliance in every home. A lot of utility companies are looking at potentially aggregating them, charging at one time and powering at another.” — Brian Essenmacher, CleanTech Talk — Solar, Batteries, EVs, AI

Context

Asked what he sees ahead for the industry that isn't obvious yet, the EcoFlow executive says home solar-plus-storage units could become grid assets that utilities aggregate. It's a bet that small consumer batteries turn into distributed grid capacity.

Transcript

CleanTech Talk — Solar, Batteries, EVs, AI Around 12:26 into the episode
Brian Essenmacher

…but sun energy prices are high um and you also have you have millions of people um that they're they could never put in a rooftop solar systems or in a high rise they might only have a balcony and so this obviously gives those folks um you know real really good payback to offset their energy bills

Scott Cooney

…are going to pass and you know it's going to grow everywhere africa india you know everywhere what else do you see what what are what are what would you share industry insights wise anything in the industry that would be kind of like kind of something we might not obviously see if anything

Brian Essenmacher

no i mean i think i think these these solutions this plug-in solar um with storage i i really think is the next appliance in every home um i think a lot of utility companies are looking at these as potentially aggregating them and being able to charge at one time power at another time and so i think there's a lot of opportunities over the next five years um to not i mean these are not for recreation anymore they're really for you know um load balancing from a utility perspective and so we're continuing to work with utility companies and look out in the future as far as how we can help do that for them and but then also how we can help you know our end users um you know a lot of this is about power outages but there's just a huge shift with um you know um really offsetting energy bills and you know charging off peak powering on peak

Scott Cooney

okay great well thank you brian thanks for joining us today on clean tech talk and good luck i i hope the industry just continues to grow and boom and uh helps us march into our clean Tech future. So appreciate the work that you're doing.

Brian Essenmacher

All right. Thanks a lot, Scott.

Scott Cooney

Okay. Take care.

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