Vision # The future runs on electricity. Imagine a home where solar, batteries, EVs, heating, and appliances work together quietly. Electricity is ready where and when life needs it. One electric home ## Many technologies. Three simple roles. Electric life will grow from many ways to make, keep, and use electricity. A roof, a car, a heat pump, and the wider grid can all play a part. - **Produce** Make electricity nearby or bring it in from many sources. - **Store** Keep electricity or useful heat for the right moment. - **Use** Turn electricity into comfort, movement, work, and care. The technologies will change. Produce, Store, and Use will remain. Produce ## Electricity can come from many places. A solar roof can make electricity near the people using it. Wind, hydropower, geothermal, and nuclear fission can serve many homes through the grid. Each source has its own strengths, limits, scale, and place. No source needs to do everything. Sunlight changes through the day, wind follows the weather, and other sources have different patterns. A wider mix can serve different places and times. Better solar, advanced geothermal, wave and tidal power, and advanced nuclear power may add options. If commercial fusion becomes practical, it could one day supply the wider grid. It is a possibility, not a promise or a home technology. ### Today - Solar - Wind - Hydropower - Geothermal - Nuclear fission ### Looking ahead - Better solar - Advanced geothermal - Wave and tidal power - Advanced nuclear power - Commercial fusion Many sources can share one purpose: dependable electricity for life. Store ## Carry electricity through time. A home battery can keep solar electricity for the evening. An electric car holds electricity for travel. With bidirectional equipment and local support, some vehicles may also supply a home or the grid. This depends on the car, charger, installation, energy provider, and local rules. Storage does not always look like a battery. A hot-water tank can keep water warm. A well-insulated building can hold heat or cool air. Pumped hydropower can move water uphill and release it later to make electricity. Different stores solve different gaps, from quick responses to days or seasons. Flow batteries, sodium-ion batteries, compressed air, advanced thermal storage, gravity, and hydrogen offer growing options for different jobs. ### Today - Home batteries - EV batteries - Hot water - Building heat - Pumped hydropower ### Growing options - Flow batteries - Sodium-ion batteries - Compressed air - Advanced thermal storage - Gravity storage - Hydrogen storage Storage is more than a box on a wall. It is every useful way of keeping electricity for later. Use ## Electricity becomes the things people care about. People do not want to manage electrons. They want light, warm water, comfort, food, clean clothes, mobility, work, care, and communication. Electricity matters because it becomes these parts of life. Some uses can move to a better time. Cars can often charge while parked. Water can warm before it is needed. Heating and cooling can adjust without changing comfort. Essential needs, such as medical equipment, a meal, a safe home, or a journey, cannot always wait. People should choose what matters, not plan every switch. The system should respect those priorities and coordinate flexible devices around them. The same idea reaches public transport, freight, agriculture, tools and machines, care, and industry. ### Everyday life - Lighting - Hot water - Heating and cooling - Cooking - Appliances - Cars and e-bikes - Computers ### Across more of life - Public transport - Freight - Care - Tools and machines - Agriculture - Industry The value of electricity is not the flow itself. It is the life that flow makes possible. A shared medium ## From many separate paths to one connected foundation. Think of this as a metaphor. Homes needed separate paths for different signals. Ethernet let many kinds of data share a network. Electricity can connect generation, storage, mobility, heating, and daily life in a similar way. 01Separate paths02Shared data03Shared electricity ### One service, one path. Purpose-specific wiring can work well alone, but many separate paths make a home harder to adapt. - Telephone - Television - Doorbell - Intercom - Data ### Many services, one network. Ethernet gave different services one data network, making them easier to move and change. - Calls - Video - Messages - Music - Work ### Many physical systems, one electric medium. Electricity is not data, and a battery is not a heater. Yet different physical systems can meet through one electric foundation without becoming the same thing. - Solar - Battery - Car - Heating - Home A shared medium does not make systems identical. It helps them work together. Built around life ## A future made for people. More electric choices should not create more confusion. Solar, batteries, cars, heating, and future devices should still feel like one home, not a control room. People should not need to become system operators. They should say what matters: comfort, a ready car, a reserve, cleaner electricity, or a budget. The system should handle the detail and ask for attention when needed. More sources can build resilience. More storage can create freedom across time. Choice becomes powerful when it is understandable and control stays with people. The system can be complex behind the scenes and still feel calm in daily life: understandable when you look, responsive when needs change, and ready for the moments that matter. Powerbeat ## The operating system for the electric home. Powerbeat is building the shared model that brings supported devices together, so the electric home can be understood and coordinated as one. [Explore Powerbeat](https://powerbeat.ai/en/product/)