Base Power Sidesteps PJM's Congested Queue With Retail Electricity License

Base Power expanded into PJM's territory via a retail electricity license, placing batteries at residential homes to deliver grid services without entering the region's 3,000+ project interconnection queue. By treating distributed batteries as customer-side equipment rather than grid resources, the startup accesses capacity and ancillary service revenue streams without years of regulatory review. The approach lets existing frameworks serve a new asset class, though regulators are watching whether the structure holds as virtual power plants scale.