Base Power, an Austin home-battery startup, is flipping the switch on Chicagoland. The company has launched service across the region and is opening a warehouse in Bloomingdale, with plans to hire roughly 50 people over the next year. The move brings Base’s whole-home battery system, bundled with an electricity supply plan, to suburbs from Plainfield to Evanston. It is the company’s first market outside Texas and follows a major funding push last year.
In a press release via Business Wire, Base said it will stage equipment and field crews out of the Bloomingdale warehouse and that service is now available across ComEd’s service territory. The company’s offer combines an installed whole-home battery with an energy plan it markets as "at least 25% below ComEd’s default supply rate," plus a promotional $95 installation price for the first 2,000 members. The release lists suburbs including Plainfield, Arlington Heights and Evanston among the initial service areas.
The Chicagoland expansion rides on the back of a $1 billion Series C round closed in October 2025 and an earlier $200 million Series B, financing that investors said would fuel national growth and manufacturing scale-up. As reported by TechCrunch, Base has already deployed more than 100 megawatt-hours of residential storage and installed systems in tens of thousands of Texas homes. Company leaders argue that track record is what lets Base roll into larger, more heavily regulated markets like Illinois.
Why Chicagoland?
Wholesale power and capacity costs have pushed ComEd’s default supply rate higher this year, creating a timely opening for battery-plus-supply offers that trim bills and provide backup when the lights go out. Analysis of recent PJM auction results and Illinois market rules from CallMePower points to capacity charges as a key reason the summer Price-to-Compare climbed, squeezing traditional retail suppliers and making a sharply priced offer more attractive. Base contends that pairing in-home batteries with its supply plan lets it harvest both customer savings and grid value during peak demand hours.
Jobs And Local Operations
Base says it expects to add about 50 local roles over the next year, including electricians, field crews, and warehouse and logistics staff, and job boards are already showing openings in Bloomingdale. Local reporting by the Chicago Business Journal first flagged the Bloomingdale hub, and company hiring pages and listings on sites like Ashby show Base recruiting warehouse supervisors, material handlers and operations leads. Municipal permitting and partnerships with local contractors will be the nuts-and-bolts details that determine how quickly the company can scale installations across the suburbs.
Homeowners can check availability at Base Power’s site, which now lists both Texas and Illinois service areas. For the company’s full launch details and the promotional installation offer, see the press release via Business Wire. Local contractors and municipal permitting offices will help determine how fast those batteries move from the Bloomingdale warehouse into customers’ homes.
