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10x Grid Storage: How Mesh Batteries Are Revolutionizing Home Energy

Hardware to Save a Planet · 8 May 2025 · 41m · Episode 78

What this episode covers

Cole Ashman, CEO and founder of Pila Energy, explains how his company is disrupting the home energy storage market with a mesh battery system that is significantly cheaper and more accessible than traditional whole-home solutions like the Tesla Powerwall. Ashman, drawing on his experience at Tesla and Span, details the technical architecture of Pila’s 1.6 kWh batteries, which use a sub-gigahertz mesh network to coordinate power distribution and enable bi-directional energy flow in the future. He discusses the regulatory hurdles for balcony solar and distributed backup, the supply chain strategies that allow for low unit economics, and the vision of embedding these batteries into appliances and multi-tenant buildings to create a resilient, distributed grid.

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early-stage companies

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Tesla, Span, Impulse
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Powerwall, Sonos

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