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Thank you to everyone who joined us at Shack15 for the SF Climate Week event we co-hosted with Prelude Ventures and LaunchSquad. Here are four takeaways from our panel: Only 1% of deployed batteries sit on commercial and industrial sites, despite C&I representing ~30% of the U.S. building market. Warehouses, logistics facilities, and cold storage are the next major deployment wave. — Tim Woodward, Prelude Ventures With 90,000+ batteries under management and growing, these aren't "virtual" power plants anymore. They're firm, dispatchable assets in the ground. Hold DERs to the same reliability standard as traditional energy assets, not a higher one. — Yang Yu, Sunrun VPPs are no longer a technology problem. What's left is nailing the business models, financing structures, and incentives. — Kunal Girotra, Lunar Energy The battery doesn't have to enter the home as a battery. Embed it in a product people already use. That's how you bring distributed energy to the other 93% of homes that solar never reached. — Sam Calisch, Copper The grid of the future is bi-directional and collaborative. We're grateful to be building it alongside this community.

If you're in town for SF Climate Week, we'd love to meet you. Our CEO Sam Calisch will be on two panels following distinct pathways in the energy transition: Citizen-Led Climate Finance — Unlocking Barriers to Electrification & Clean Energy 📅 Saturday, April 18 | 1:30–2:20 PM | UC Law SF, Baxter Classroom Sam joins moderator Ian Monroe and fellow speakers Cora Stryker of Bright Saver, Melissa Yu of Sierra Club, and Bruce Biewald of Synapse Energy Economics to share solutions driving individuals' clean energy adoption. Register here: https://lnkd.in/ghJJjuGe Can VPPs Solve the Grid's Capacity Crunch? 📅 Wednesday, April 22 | 4:00–7:00 PM | Ferry Building Virtual power plants are poised to scale as a solution to both surging energy demand and affordability. Kunal Girotra of Lunar Energy, Tim Woodward of Prelude Ventures, Yang Yu of Sunrun, and Sam discuss their experiences and perspectives on distributed energy with moderator Katie Brigham of Heatmap News. Register here: https://luma.com/5nafsatm #SFCW

Last week, we installed 15 Charlies in a Manhattan co-op where residents hadn't been able to cook on a stove for nearly 4 years. We're grateful to the residents who shared their experiences with The Guardian and even invited the reporter and photographer back for a home-cooked meal! Read the full story: https://lnkd.in/gvDvBzJn

Woohoo! Copper has been named one of Fast Company's 50 Most Innovative Companies for 2026. We started with a simple belief: electrification should be easy and obvious. Part of that ease is also making the switch joyful. Charlie was built for this and has made thousands of households healthier and cozier, judging from the beautiful food pictures and kind words we get every day from our cooks. Thank you to all the cooks who welcomed Charlie into their homes, shared it with their communities, and reminded us every day why this work matters. Here's to cleaner homes, better cooking, and a whole lot more nice energy ahead.

Hey DC! Come to Electrify DC's Healthy Homes Fair tomorrow morning to hear Joshua Land share how distributed energy resources like Charlie can increase climate resilience and avoid building new power plants.

Several members of our team are on the road this week and next! Come see us at New York Build Expo today and tomorrow, Apartment Association of Orange County's Rental Housing show tomorrow, Electrify DC's Healthy Homes Fair this weekend, and the Apartment Association of Greater Los Angeles (AAGLA)'s Income Property Management Expo next week.

Last year, PLAYTE Kitchen electrified its entire cooking school with Charlies! We're proud to partner with them and enable more people to experience the magic of induction. If you'd like to try cooking on Charlie, join us this Saturday for a free event at PLAYTE featuring chefs Matt Dailey and Lisa Pinckney making Tom Kha Gai and Pad Kra Pao. They'll demonstrate the dishes and you'll have the opportunity to make Pad Kra Pao. Register to taste these delicious dishes and cook on Charlie: https://lnkd.in/dwuFke67

We're looking to make a few key engineering hires as soon as we can! This is a great opportunity to apply your first-principles thinking, rigor, and creative problem-solving skills to improve products people use every day. You’ll work cross-functionally, move fast, and help redefine energy use in the home. Open engineering roles: Senior Electrical Validation Engineer: own test strategy, compliance, and validation from prototype through production Staff Embedded Systems Engineer: architect and ship firmware that controls high-power systems in the real world Staff Mechanical Engineer: design robust, manufacturable hardware for integration with electrical and embedded systems Apply here: https://lnkd.in/g4k9f2Ws #NowHiring #HardwareEngineering #Electrification #CleanTech #EmbeddedEngineering #ElectricalEngineering #MechanicalEngineer

This is a HUGE new study from CalMTA (California Market Transformation Authority) calling 120V battery-equipped induction a "game changer". Here's how this study came to be. At one the multifamily buildings we've helped electrify, residents agreed to share data on how they use their battery-equipped induction ranges. They also agreed to take part in follow-up surveys on how they feel having switched from gas to induction. The team at CalMTA then pored over data for months. The result is a robust qualitative and quantitative 3rd party assessment of the viability of using 120V battery-equipped ranges to electrify kitchens. We've pulled out some of the key highlights here. If you're at all interested in residential electrification, please read the full report: https://lnkd.in/gqrSMDeE