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The NERD is $50,000, including installation of the NERD and Grid Guardian, plus sales tax where it applies, which is figured at the final sale. Your $5,000 deposit counts toward it, and the $45,000 balance is due when your NERD is assembled and ready for delivery and deployment.

We intend to have financing available prior to the first shipments, and welcome conversations with ethical lenders who'd like to expand access to resilient energy infrastructure.

Solar, a generator and compute equipment, and their installation, are separate. Local professionals can integrate them with your NERD later.

When your NERD is ready, you have 14 days to pay the $45,000 balance (or arrange to pay it, if you're using credit or your financial institution requires longer to transfer funds) and claim it. If you don't claim it within 14 days, it goes to the next reservation in line (a paid-in-full reservation first), and you take that reservation's place. Your Pioneer number never changes.

It's an energy equation: what you run, how much power it uses, how long you run it, and how much energy your connected solar, generator or other sources can add. When nothing is replenishing the battery, approximate runtime is usable stored energy (kWh) divided by average power use (kW). Smart load management helps you make that energy go further.

The NERD is designed for 200A utility passthrough, with every circuit on your 200A panel available for you to choose. Your settings decide what runs together, within the power available. The 200A figure describes grid passthrough; power during an outage depends on the final battery and inverter output, connected sources and remaining stored energy.

For example, you might pause the water heater for a few hours during peak times to earn an eligible demand-response reward, leave more power available to sell, or avoid peak electricity prices. Want hot water sooner? You can turn it back on, within the system's available power. Your priorities are the point.

Generator: yes, with adaptation by a qualified local professional.

Solar: yes. Depending on the technology and wiring already in place, rewiring may be the best way to make it useful throughout your system, including during outages. A local professional handles that integration.

EV: it depends on the vehicle's capabilities and access to the manufacturer's software. We're working toward universal compatibility; support for your vehicle will need to be confirmed.

No. The NERD includes grid-chargeable batteries for short blackouts, smart load management to make stored energy last longer and do more, and the Grid Guardian to help keep the system cybersecure. How long it runs depends on the loads you choose.

Solar, an EV, a generator and a GPU can come later. Each can add resilience, useful capability or earnings potential. Start with the spine and brains, then add what makes sense for you.

You pay for internet service and any interconnection charges your local utility requires. We're also exploring a monthly Ovanova service fee based on the services you use. Those fees and what they cover will be clear in the service agreements before you agree to them.

You stay in control, with help from our AI assistant and a qualified local tradesperson, ideally someone involved in installing your system. Local professionals handle electrical work; the assistant helps you understand and manage your NERD.

Ovanova monitors how the system is performing and, as the manufacturer, takes responsibility for the quality and performance of our products. The service agreements will spell out support, monitoring permissions and service terms.

We first built a less capable version using foreign components and demonstrated the underlying capabilities. The prototype has been confirmed. The cybersecure gateway has been built from assembled components and is being field tested.

As of November 2026, the next 6–18 months are focused on final design choices, form factor, testing and certification work for civilian and military applications. The production NERD is still in development; our first-delivery target is listed below.

Yes. A NERD keeps learning, as you'd expect from a NERD. Its on-board intelligence is designed to improve how it manages your energy as it learns how your system is used. The service agreements will explain how updates and ongoing services are provided.

No. It's your power. You can use everything you produce yourself and draw additional power from the utility when it's available. You can use your compute for your own projects, work, or personal needs. You don't have to rent it out. Selling power and renting compute are simply ways to put a visible price on something you already own.

You choose whether to participate. You can keep your energy for your own needs, including during grid peaks, subject to any commitments in a program you've chosen to join. The NERD is designed to make a useful contribution from day one through backup power and smart load management; paid grid support also depends on local approvals and program eligibility.

1. Your place is recorded. Once your payment clears, you receive confirmation and a private reservation page where you can see your payment status and place in line. On a payment plan, your first cleared payment gets you started.

2. We prepare your deployment. As development and production move forward, we'll share the details needed to confirm your site, setup and installation timing. Your installation and service agreements will set out the final scope and service costs before you agree. You don't have to buy solar, a generator, an EV or compute to proceed.

3. You claim your NERD. When yours is assembled and ready for delivery and deployment, we email you. You have 14 days to pay or arrange the balance and claim it. If you've already paid in full, it's yours right away. Then we coordinate installation with you under your agreement.

4. Make it yours. Set your priorities and put your NERD to work. Add other energy sources or compute with local professionals whenever you're ready.

Yes. Refundable anytime: your refund goes out 30 days after you ask. It goes back to the card or bank account you paid with. One exception: a payment from a bank account made more than about 180 days before your refund goes out comes back by bank transfer or check from Ovanova. On a payment plan, that's everything you've paid so far, and the remaining payments stop. To ask, just email nerd@ovanova.co. If we can't deliver your NERD, you get a full refund.

Once you sign an installation agreement, your payments are credited toward that purchase and the agreement governs cancellation.

It reserves your NERD and holds your place in the first production run. All of it is credited toward your NERD's price. It isn't an investment: no equity, no returns, no interest. Before you have to pay anything beyond your deposit, we confirm your site, setup and installation timing with you in your installation agreement.

Yes. Choose "In payments" in the reservation form to pay your deposit in payments, from each, with no credit check and nothing extra to pay. The first is charged when you reserve and gets your Pioneer number. You pick the day of the month for the rest, and you can change it anytime from the link in our emails. The form shows every date and amount before you pay. We email you a reminder before each payment. To stop the plan, just write us.

Yes. Choose "Pay in full now" in the reservation form to pay the whole $50,000 at once. Then there's no balance to pay later: when your NERD is assembled and ready for delivery and deployment, it's yours at once. We still confirm your site, setup and installation timing with you in your installation agreement. Sales tax, where it applies, is figured at the final sale.

Paying in full helps us get NERDs certified and built sooner. If someone ahead of you doesn't claim theirs, a paid-in-full reservation moves up to their place.

Already reserved? Once your deposit is fully paid, you can pay the balance anytime with "Pay the balance now" on your reservation page, or write nerd@ovanova.co. It's refundable anytime, just like your deposit.

Yes. Reserve a NERD for your home, or for any place you want to know will always have power: a church, a school, a shelter, a clinic. If you're reserving for an organization, you confirm you're authorized to, or that you'll get its agreement before installation.

Yes. Reserve as many as you want, for your own properties, your community, or a business that leases NERDs to others. For larger orders, write nerd@ovanova.co and we'll set up a volume plan with you.

It's being designed for grid support as well as backup power. Taking part is your choice. Participation will depend on the final hardware, utility approval and the programs available where you live. See how demand response and compute can create value.

The NERD is in development, and pre-orders reserve a place in the first production run. We expect to deliver the first NERDs by July 4, 2028. That's our target, not a promise. We confirm timing with you before you sign anything more.

Installation of the NERD and Grid Guardian is included. Communications hardware is included; internet service is paid separately.

Included: The NERD: spine, Grid Guardian & phone app · Batteries · Cybersecure gateway · Smart load management · Internet, dual cell & space-based internet · Edge compute · Microgrid-ready integration · EMP-hardened, weatherproof enclosure.

Ready when you are (not included): Solar · EV (bidirectional) · Generator · GPU for at-home compute. See the full list.

Only if you choose. In the reservation form you pick "List me publicly" and see exactly what will show, or "Keep my reservation private". Private reservations still get their number and show as "Reserved privately". Ask us any time to take your name off the list.

Let's talk. Write nerd@ovanova.co and we'll set up a volume plan with you.