Starbucks and Duracell Powermat are set to announce a business partnership Thursday that will allow customers to charge their smartphones wirelessly.

According to USA Today, Duracell will announce Thursday that it intends to start putting its Powermat wireless chargers in Starbucks and Teavana locations in the U.S. The rollout will start in the Bay Area, Calif. and spread across the nation over the next three years.

The Powermats will be built into the tables, so customers need only set their smartphones on a marked spot to charge it. Starbucks will put more than 100,000 Powermats in 7,500 stores, an average of about 12 per location.

"From WiFi and the in-store Starbucks Digital Network to mobile payment and digital music downloads, we have always tried to anticipate our customers' needs early in the adoption curve and provide a world-class solution. We are thrilled to offer our customers that next level of convenience with Powermat wireless charging. Rather than hunting around for an available power outlet, they can seamlessly charge their device while enjoying their favorite food or beverage offering right in our stores," Adam Brotman, chief digital officer at Starbucks, said in a press release. "We were pleased with the customer response to the pilot tests, and we're now expanding this offering nationally to provide our customers a quality and reliable experience as they use our stores as their respite, their office away from home or as a gathering place with their friends and family."

Starbucks first introduced Wi-Fi to its stores in 2001, when the World Wide Web was only about 10 years old and a vast majority of our technology could not connect to the Internet without a cord. Stassi Anastassov, President of Duracell at Procter & Gamble, noted that this has made Starbucks a household name and renowned institution.

"Starbucks is transforming the way consumers get power to their phones, in much the same way it made WiFi a standard amenity in public places. This endeavor is a critical step in Duracell's vision to make dead battery anxiety a thing of the past," Anastassov said in the release. "When Starbucks introduced WiFi in their stores in 2001, 95 percent of devices didn't have WiFi, and multiple standards hampered the industry. The rest is history. Starbucks' plans to offer Powermat nationally is likely to settle any lingering standards questions, and usher wireless power into the mainstream."