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WATTER Co-Founder and CEO James Hancock [File Photo; background: Watter]
Dallas-Based WATTER Named a BloombergNEF Pioneers Finalist
by David Seeley | Feb 24, 2026
WATTER—a startup whose high-tech water heaters use wasted heat from compute devices to heat water in homes and businesses, while reducing demand on the grid—is one of 29 Pioneers finalists selected in this year's competition. Other finalists include Austin-based BASE Power, which expanded to Dallas last summer.
by David Seeley |
Aug 20, 2025
Aiming to serve as a "virtual power plant" to bolster the Texas grid, Base—co-founded by CEO Zach Dell, son of billionaire Dell founder Michael Dell—offers residential customers an all-in-one energy plan including a whole-home backup battery that can power homes during a blackout.
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by David Seeley |
Aug 26, 2024
Co-founded by CEO Zach Dell—son of Dell Founder and CEO Michael Dell—Base Power is building distributed battery storage for both customers and the grid, one home at a time. It does that by providing energy to homes along with a backup battery that can be used for up to 24 hours in a blackout.
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