July 3, 2026, San Carlos, CA | On the eve of America’s 250th birthday
Two hundred and fifty years ago, a young nation made a radical claim: that its future should not be decided by a distant power beyond its control.
Tomorrow, America celebrates a quarter-millennium of that idea.
At ElectricFish, we believe the next chapter of independence will be written not only through laws and institutions, but through the infrastructure beneath everyday life. Energy is the foundation of modern freedom. It determines whether businesses can operate, families can move, and communities can recover.
Yet too often, one downed wire can darken a neighborhood. One constrained substation can delay progress for years. One missing grid upgrade can prevent a business from electrifying. This demonstrates the limits of depending on an architecture built over a century ago.
Our mission is to secure energy independence everywhere.
Our vision is a decentralized electric grid prepared for anything.We did not choose these words because they sound good on a wall. We chose them because we looked at how America’s energy actually reaches its people. When the wire goes down, the community goes dark. When the substation is full, progress waits years in a queue. That doesn’t sound like independence.
We decided to do the hard thing instead: bring energy to where people are.
The architecture of independence
The iconic corner gas station is a place that has dispensed freedom of movement for a hundred years.
1. Power that keeps flowing when the grid doesn’t. Every ElectricFish 400squared system is a battery-buffered energy unit that can island — electrically separate from the grid in milliseconds and keep serving power on its own. When a storm, a wildfire shutoff, or a cyber event takes the wires down, the site stays lit, the pumps stay on, the chargers keep charging.
Our deployment with the National Park Service in Brooklyn was the first battery-backed DC Fast charging deployment in New York delivering bidirectional grid services, and was recognized by the Department of Homeland Security through theirClean Power for Hours award. Resilience is a fundamental design principle, not just an afterthought feature we added.
2. The independence to drive electric — anywhere, now. Extreme fast charging normally demands a massive grid connection: months of utility studies, years of upgrades, trenches through city streets. Our architecture breaks that dependence.
The 400squared draws a modest 40–100 kW from the existing grid, banks it in on-site LFP storage, and dispenses up to 400 kW of charging — an 80% charge within 10 minutes, from a connection the site already has. Four hundred kilowatts of freedom from a garden-hose grid connection. Deployment in weeks, not years. No utility upgrade. No waiting for permission.
3. Energy reservoirs inside our cities and towns. Every unit we deploy is a reservoir of stored energy sitting behind the meter, inside the community it serves. Aggregated, these reservoirs shave peaks, firm the local grid, and sell services back into wholesale markets: they are doing this today, earning real revenue in California, New York, Massachusetts, and Michigan.
We think often about the night the power goes out. Somewhere in America, it happens every single day. We built this company for that exact moment — so the lights stay on, the doors stay open, and the road stays free.
Why we stay true to it
The Declaration of Independence was a promise signed by people who knew they might not live to see it kept, and which has since been stewarded by each generation which has followed.
Our Declaration of Energy Independence is a promise too. And promises are not kept with words. They are kept with steel in the ground. They are kept every hour, where energy stored quietly flows back to the grid when the grid needs it most. They are kept at the gas station — the place your grandfather filled his tank, the place your daughter will charge her car — where the next hundred years of American mobility is being plugged in right now.
Two hundred and fifty years ago, ordinary people looked at the most powerful system on Earth and said: we can govern ourselves. We look at the grid — a century old, straining, magnificent, and no longer enough — and we say the same thing about energy.
We hold this truth to be self-evident: that energy independence is not a privilege to be granted by the grid. It is a right — to be built, and earned, and defended. Block by block. Station by station. Family by family. That is the promise. That is the work. That is the energy we deserve.
— The ElectricFish Team
