Vinnie Campo wants a virtual power plant in every home. A former U.S. country manager at the British renew a ble energy company Bulb and general manager at Uber’s ebike division, Campo, 35, cofounded the home battery startup Haven Energy in 2022 with a simple goal: to accelerate the adoption of home energy storage. While U.S. households have relied on solar power for decades, what they haven’t had is an affordable way to store that power and use it later.
“It was next to impossible,” says Campo, Haven’s CEO. “There’s no underlying infrastructure in place.”
Haven is changing that. The com pany helps homeowners create custom home battery systems, connects them with electricians for installations, and makes software that tells the home when to pull energy from the grid and when to switch to batteries. Not only can Haven’s batteries prevent home power outages and reduce energy bills by up to $1,000 per year, but the company’s software-based marketplace even allows homeowners to earn money
