EcoFlow Live life off the grid

Insight

Where there is energy, there is life. Unfortunately, energy doesn’t flow everywhere in Japan.

Typhoons, floods, landslides, earthquakes and other forms of climate disasters have disrupted the flow of electricity to many places in Japan. Like countless homes and properties, a holiday lodge in the remote mountain area called Yokoyama, located in Ina City in Nagano prefecture, was abandoned after its power was cut 15 years ago. Once a popular ski lodge in winter and a camp in summer for many Ina City residents, it became a deteriorating space waiting to be torn down.

EcoFlow – Second Life
A large group of children and adults pose together outdoors in front of a light-colored building with a sloped roof, surrounded by greenery and hills, all smiling at the camera.
A close-up of a persons hand pointing at an architectural blueprint of a house, showing the buildings front elevation with windows and a door.

Idea

The EcoFlow House.

To show the benefits of EcoFlow’s range of portable battery packs and solar-powered systems, a project to reopen the lodge was initiated. The lodge has been renovated, furnished and fitted with modern-living amenities so families and groups of friends can feel as comfortable living in nature like they do when they are in the city. Equipped with EcoFlow’s power system and battery packs, which are self-sustaining and constantly charged with solar panels, residents don’t have to worry about energy supply.

Now open, the lodge has been renamed The EcoFlow House, available to anyone who wants to experience the freedom of living off the grid.

A dark gray A-frame house with white trim, large front windows, and a sign reading ECOFLOW HOUSE, surrounded by green trees and grass.
A framed poster shows a stylized house glowing with orange light amidst blue mountains at sunset. The border has repeating vertical Japanese text, and YOKOYAMA is written in large letters at the bottom.
Six older adults, seen from behind, stand inside a large, modern building with high ceilings, looking towards a wooden-framed glass wall and a spacious, warmly lit interior beyond it.
A person wearing a white T-shirt with a large, stylized graphic on the back depicting mountains, a sunset, and a house, with the word YOKOYAMA at the bottom. The person stands against a peach-colored wall.
A dark-colored building is partially obscured by green trees. A neon sign on the porch roof reads ECOFLOW HOUSE. The setting appears natural and peaceful.

Impact

Not just a battery.

Receiving an Honourable Mention in the Experimental category of Fast Company’s 2023 Innovation by Design Awards, The EcoFlow House has changed the perception that EcoFlow products are simply battery packs used for camping and barbecues. The ability to power sustainable living is demonstrated.

Celebrity ambassador and former football star Hidetoshi Nakata, influencers and advocates of clean, sustainable energy were invited to stay at the house to review and co-create social content to spread the word to the community.

There are plans for EcoFlow to power an entire neighbourhood in the near future.

  • Honourable Mention

    Experimental

A man wearing a hat and casual clothes stands in a grassy clearing, holding a portable speaker, with green trees and distant hills in the background.
View through large windows into a modern, well-lit home; two people stand in the kitchen area, with plants, wooden furniture, and an open loft visible above.
A man in a white t-shirt sits by a large window with a laptop on his lap, looking thoughtful. A portable power station connected to his laptop is on the bench beside him. Lush greenery is visible outside.
  • EcoFlowEcoFlow House long-awaited reopening this spring ↘
  • MynaviAn accommodation experience facility for portable power ↘
  • NicovideoI visited EcoFlow House ↘

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