“We know a lot of states are under a lot of strain with utility, with people drawing more power. You talk about data centers consuming more power. This plug-in solar really allows millions more to come into the fold and help out utilities with offsetting peak energy rates.”
CleanTech Talk — Solar, Batteries, EVs, AI · Climate & Energy · November 2026
Context
After the host noted Hawaii's electricity prices near 50 cents per kWh, the EcoFlow executive ties plug-in solar to the strain on utilities from rising demand, including data centers. It links a small consumer product to the AI power-demand story.
Transcript
…to different regulations, different jurisdictions. And so we certainly have products today that comply with a lot of the standards, but we're also just waiting for other states to adopt the standards as well as working with UL on new standards that would come out in the market in the near future.
…it'll pass. It's exceptionally popular out here. And our electric bills are very high. Our kilowatt hour is almost 50 cents kilowatt hour out here in Hawaii. So the payback period on one of these EcoFlows with the PowerStream kicking 500 watts back into a system is, I'm sure, very, very quick.
Yeah. And I think a lot of states too are, I mean, we know a lot of states are under a lot of strain with utility, with people drawing more power. You talk about data centers consuming more power. And so I think a lot of states are looking for alternative energy solutions from a from a, you know, and so, you know, there were, there was a lot of rooftop solar and a lot of incentives towards those types of things. But this really, you know, this plug-in solar really allows millions more to come into the fold and, you know, kind of enter into that equation where they could help out utilities with offsetting peak energy rates as well as, you know, offsetting their energy bills too, from a customer's perspective. That's why people are buying our product. It's really to save money on their energy bills.
For sure. Yeah. And especially if they have storage and if there's time of use pricing, then obviously that storage will be exceptionally powerful in terms of saving them money on their electric. Let's talk. So with regard to the technical aspects of this thing, 1,200 watts is kind of the max…
it's anywhere from 800 to 1,200 watts, depending on the space, on the state.
So that's regulatory. So is that sort of, is there a technical reason? Is it like a software hardware kind of issue that gets past that? Is there safety concerns that get past that? Or is it just...
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