DJI Power 2000 Review: The Power Station for Drone Pilots (and Everyone Else?)

by Alex Coleman July 3, 2025 0 Comments

I’ve relied on power stations for outdoor shoots and location work over the past year because they eliminate battery anxiety and bridge the gap between studio and location setups. With the Power 2000, DJI elevates the power station with a high-capacity unit featuring user-friendly design and tight integration with their ecosystem. Is it worth adding to your gear?

DJI is synonymous with drones and gimbals, but for a while now, they’ve been active in the portable power space, with the Power 1000 and Power 500. Moving into this niche seems like an easy business case study: DJI has experience with designing batteries and battery management systems for use in challenging scenarios like drones, plus they’ve become well regarded for their ability to make complex electronics accessible to a wide audience.

With the new DJI Power 2000, the company is building on those strengths. This unit sits at the top of their Power lineup, boasting an immense capacity of 2,048 Wh and features that feel well suited for everyone from a nature documentary videographer to a fashion photographer looking to set up lights on a NYC corner. In the same way the Phantom series of drones made advanced drone technology accessible to everyone, the DJI Power line feels poised to do the same for high-end portable power. After spending some time with it in the field and in the studio, I can say it's one of the most well-thought-out power stations I've used, especially for those already invested in the DJI ecosystem.

First Impressions

Right out of the box, the DJI Power 2000 brings the clean and high-tech design language consumers have come to expect from DJI. It’s a dense, solid unit, weighing about 50 lbs, but the integrated handles and well-balanced weight make it manageable to move around a location or lift into a car.

What stands out is the sheer variety of ports on the front panel. DJI has equipped the Power 2000 to handle virtually any device a creator might use. You get four standard AC outlets, four USB-A ports (24 W each), and four powerful USB-C ports (two at 140 W and two at 65 W), making them capable of fast-charging a MacBook Pro, gaming laptop, or drone with ease. For more specialized needs, there’s even a 30 A NEMA plug, perfect for powering an RV’s appliances. Overall, this selection of standard ports is very useful and feels more tailored to content creators than some of the general power station products I’ve reviewed, with the extra high-wattage USB-C ports being

This 30 A plug was a newer one for me but is apparently quite common in the RV space, providing 30 A 125 V service.

The really unique ports on the front are the two proprietary SDC ports, which I’ll talk more about in a moment. Together, this selection of ports ensures you could easily power a medium-sized production (drawing up to 3 kW) from a single box or just never have to worry about swapping around cords in your RV or at the campsite.

Power and Performance

At the core of the Power 2000 is a massive 2,048 Wh LiFePO4 battery. This battery chemistry trades a bit of energy density for significantly enhanced safety and longevity. DJI rates the battery for 4,000 cycles while retaining 80% capacity, which translates to roughly 10 years of daily use. That 4,000 cycles gets even crazier when you remember it’s referring to 2 kWh of capacity, meaning casual users drawing a couple hundred watts a day will see many, many years go by before an appreciable drop in battery life.

For context, 2 kWh is enough to power a demanding load for an extended period. It’s enough to recharge your laptop about 20 times, power 300 W of video lights for an entire shoot day, or keep a portable fridge running for nearly two days. Meanwhile, with a continuous output of 3,000 W, the Power 2000 can keep up with heavy loads on all the available outlets, offering effectively two North American residential circuit breakers’ worth of current.

Both in use and when recharging, the Power 2000 is very quiet. While recharging from a wall outlet at 1,800 W (going from 0–80% in under an hour), the fans are rated at under 30 dB. In practice, it’s far quieter than a household refrigerator—a massive advantage over a noisy gas generator on set or in a remote natural landscape.

The Ecosystem

While the Power 2000 is an excellent power station for any user, its integration into the DJI ecosystem via the SDC ports is what makes it special for drone pilots. Using a dedicated SDC-to-drone charging cable, you can rapid-charge DJI drone batteries at unprecedented speeds. For a Mavic 3, this means you could charge a battery from 10% to 95% in just 32 minutes.

You can essentially recharge a battery as fast as you can fly through one. Instead of bringing multiple batteries for a timelapse session or a heavy day of shooting, you can cycle through just a few, keeping your kit lighter and even saving on drone batteries. Remember, though, the drone batteries still need to cool appropriately after both use and charging to best maintain their health!

This feature alone helps the Power 2000 stand out from competing products in this increasingly crowded space. And while I’m not a fan of proprietary ports or standards, there’s just no way around the need for a self-started standard here. Fortunately, DJI has shown they are continuing to support the standard by launching new SDC cables at reasonable prices, with the adapters sitting around $20, even for new cables for the Mavic 4 and enterprise-grade drones.

At Home

The Power 2000’s utility extends well beyond location shoots. In the studio or just at home, it functions as a high-quality uninterruptible power supply (UPS). With a switchover time of just 10 ms, well within the 16 ms ATX specification for computers, it can keep your editing rig, NAS, or other hardware running seamlessly through a power flicker or full outage. Given its huge capacity and output capability, you could run multiple high-power workstations for an hour or more, compared to just 15 minutes on a traditional lead-acid UPS.

The internal components are also built for reliability. While I didn’t tear down my unit, I’ve seen breakdowns from others that reveal extensive protections like protective potting on the elements, with DJI themselves claiming a nano-coating on the circuit boards to resist moisture and condensation. That’s just one part of DJI’s “eightfold safety,” which pairs a smart BMS with 26 temperature sensors, 21 built-in fuses, flame-retardant materials, and inherently safer LFP cell chemistry.

The app is clean and easy to use, providing per-port tracking of output, charging estimates, charge limits, and more.

The companion app is similarly well thought out. It’s clean, simple, and provides clear insight into charge levels, input/output wattage per port, and remaining runtime. While it may not have the granular, power-user features of some competitors (like time-of-use charging), it’s still a powerful tool. I’m confident I could hand the app to a nontechnical family member and they would immediately understand how to use it. I also have a lot of confidence in DJI’s software development and deployment procedures, given their lengthy history of developing more complex apps for mobile platforms.

No product is perfect, however, and the Power 2000 has one small quirk. While it supports solar charging, this requires a separate Solar Panel Adapter Module. This module works well, but it’s an additional purchase that screws into the side of the unit with an inelegant dangling cord. In an otherwise sleek and integrated design, it feels like a bit of a compromise compared to competitors who build the solar input controller directly into the chassis. I get solar might not be a core focus, particularly for a 2 kWh battery pack (which’ll take hours to charge from even a big bank of solar panels), but still, it’s a bit cumbersome.

Final Thoughts

The DJI Power 2000 is a very capable flagship for DJI’s portable power line. It’s a top-tier unit with excellent capacity, output, and charging speeds—all wrapped in a user-friendly package. For any content creator, it’s a fantastic tool that should completely eliminate power anxiety on location or out in nature, even when off-grid for multiple days.

If you’re already invested in DJI drones, the Power 2000 becomes even more compelling, especially compared to competing stations. The SDC fast-charging port puts it above other units with a feature they just can’t match.

The DJI Power 2000 is available for purchase now from B&H, along with the Power 1000 and Power 500.