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10/31/2025

Happy Halloween from the dcbel team 🎃

10/21/2025

🔋October 21 is World Energy Saving Day🔋

As firm believers in energy without compromise, we've built a Home Energy Station that saves energy and trims your costs without you even having to lift a finger.

Check out just one of the many ways the Ara Home Energy Station empowers you to unlock the energy you already own 👇

09/22/2025

Time flies when you're gearing up for something big. EVolve 2025 is just two days away, and we’re counting down the moments until we welcome the VGI community to the Bay Area.

We’re proud to sponsor the Vehicle-Grid Integration Council’s annual event, happening September 24 and 25. It’s where leaders from across the EV, tech, utility, and fleet world come together to shape what’s next in energy and mobility.

On September 25, we’re hosting Day Two at dcbel’s West Coast Operations Center in San Bruno. But this isn’t your average conference setup.

The space is part of our 10,500 square foot facility, which includes a logistics hub, installer training area, testing lab, and our Customer Experience Center. It’s a hands-on smart home environment built to spark fresh ideas and show off the tech that’s shaping the future of energy.

We’re looking forward to welcoming you where it all comes together. It’s going to be a day to remember.

08/28/2025

A lot of advice you hear these days sounds like sacrifice: Do laundry after 9 p.m., cook meals late to avoid peak hours, charge the EV overnight to dodge time-of-use rates, and set the thermostat higher in summer (and lower in winter) to keep bills down 💸 . Reasonable ideas, but they pile onto busy lives.

What if real change doesn’t come from doing more, but from smarter systems?

Technology now makes it possible for homes, cars, and appliances to quietly cut emissions and lower costs without any extra effort. The clean choice happens in the background while life carries on as usual.

Sometimes the best way to help the planet is to keep living your life 😊 and let tools support you every step of the way ⚡.

Discover how effortless home energy management can be in our latest blog post.
👉 https://www.dcbel.energy/blog/2025/08/18/how-to-save-the-planet-without-changing-a-single-habit/

07/30/2025

US demand for electricity is growing faster than the can handle. Prices are surging as a result. But there’s a way to buck the trend: home energy.

American electricity prices have risen by 4.5% over the past year — double the rate of inflation. “It’s a story of supply and demand,” said David Hill, executive vice president of energy at the Bipartisan Policy Center and former general counsel at the Department of Energy (DOE), in an interview with CNBC.

> https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/21/why-electricity-prices-are-surging-for-us-households.html

Most of that demand is coming from data centers feeding the AI boom. Data centers already account for 4% of US electricity use, according to DOE. That will grow to 12% by 2028, equivalent to 580 billion kWh of electricity.

> https://www.enr.com/articles/61083-power-hungry-ai-fueled-data-center-boom-sets-energy-deliverys-new-course

Individuals and families are shouldering the burden. The US Energy Information Administration estimates that, by next year, residential energy prices will have risen 18% since 2018. The average household is now spending close to $2,000 per year on electricity.

> https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=65284

So what can you do to escape rising prices — not to mention the risk of a power grid overburdened by demand? Embrace the smart home energy offered by the dcbel Ara Home Energy Station. It brings together solar, battery storage and bidirectional EV charging in a single unit.

By automatically forecasting household load, generation and price signals, it keeps the light on while saving you money, all without needing manual input.

It will take a lot of investment and innovation before we can meet the quickly growing demand. But for forward-thinking homeowners, there’s already a solution.

Energy Information Administration - EIA - Official Energy Statistics from the U.S. Government