YouSolar webinar, “The Electrification of Everything and the Transition to Decentralized Power,” last Thursday drew a crowd of over 200 registrants.

We received dozens of questions from a very engaged audience, some of which we could answer during the webinar’s Q&A.

If you missed the webinar, no worries. You can watch a recording of the webinar on our YouTube Channel.

Arnold Leitner, YouSolar’s founder and CEO, started with a visual overview of today’s power grid and the challenges it faces with increasing home electrification.

In a nutshell, the utility companies that own and operate today’s transmission and distribution infrastructure are doing too little to make it fit for the dawning all-electric age.

Consequently, consumers who want to upgrade their homes with electric cooktops, heat pumps, and fast EV chargers face high costs and uncertain timelines for getting appropriate electrical service.

Typical costs of high-power utility upgrades according to Californian utility PG&E.

The good news: There is a solution. 

Decentralized high-power battery systems like the PowerBloc® can relieve the embattled centralized grid while making consumers more self-reliant and independent from slow-moving utilities.

Comparing a utility service upgrade to the alternative: a high-power battery system.

At YouSolar, we envision the future power infrastructure as a well-balanced mix of centralized power generation and decentralized energy resources, such as residential solar arrays and battery systems.

All these resources can play together in a mesh network to provide clean, affordable, and reliable power to consumers and businesses.