A pairing of a 350 kilowatt commercial solar photovoltaic system with a Tesla Powerpack battery system was recently installed by Sprig Electric at the company’s headquarters in San Jose — making the company one of the first electrical contractors in the country to do install the Powerpack. The new installation — … [continued]
Tesla is off to an early start in 2016, thanks to its Powerwall battery energy storage system. Tesla global communications director Khobi Brooklyn recently stated that Tesla Powerwalls were already being made and shipped. Last year, Tesla launched its anticipated product to discuss one of the major questions with regards to solar … [continued]
Dynapower Energy Management is a company based in Burlington, Vermont, that makes energy storage inverters, and which has experienced so much demand that a 75 MW backlog of orders has accumulated. Its inverters work with the Tesla Energy Powerpack, which is Tesla’s commercial energy storage offering. The very strong interest in Tesla’s energy … [continued]
The energy storage company UniEnergy Technologies claims that its flow battery costs “multiple times” less than Li-ion batteries like those used by Tesla.
Things being better — that’s what this conversation with Ted Craver, Elon Musk, and JB Straubel (the first video below) is all about. This interview took place at an Edison Electric Institute event and is a conversation worth adding to any collection of Elon Musk or Tesla Motors videos (Nikola Tesla … [continued]
Originally published on Kompulsa. Alberta Innovates–Energy & Environment Solutions (AI-EES) has awarded TransAlta $250,000 for the construction of Alberta’s very first large-scale commercial energy storage system. The system will be powered by 5 commercial-scale Tesla Powerpack battery modules, each the size of a household refrigerator. It is large enough to … [continued]
Update (May 10): Note that none of the prices below include any subsidies or incentives. [Full Disclosure: I’m long TSLA & SCTY.] Since the Tesla Powerwall news came out, it seems the world has been racing to understand energy storage. It’s easy to understand the concept of storing electricity and … [continued]
Originally published on SolarLove.org SolarCity and Tesla are teaming up to create turnkey residential power backup packages, according to a press release from SolarCity. Tesla announced its new Powerwall battery storage product to much fanfare last week. It is based on the lithium-ion battery technology that Tesla and its battery partner, Panasonic, use … [continued]
One of the huge pieces of news coming out of Tesla’s conference call last night was that 38,000 reservations have been made for Tesla’s Powerwall (but with an average above 1/reservation resulting in something more like 50,000 Powerwalls or more), as well as ~2,500 reservations for the much larger Powerpacks. This … [continued]
Those living in Hawaii that are interested in going off-grid will soon have a new option for doing so available to them via SolarCity, based on a recent press release. According to that release, the company will begin offering off-grid solar energy + battery systems to eligible customers in the … [continued]
