The Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) announced the inauguration of a pilot project for energy storage at the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park this week. The project has a power capacity of 1.21 MW and an energy capacity of 8.61 MWh. DEWA is using Tesla’s Powerpack batteries. … [continued]
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) isn’t so reliable these days, and it recently announced that it has some tight grid conditions due to many forced generation outages. During the winter storm that froze most of the Deep South, Texas Governor Greg Abbott claimed that frozen wind turbines were … [continued]
A Tesla Powerpack recently stepped in to save the day when a coal-fired plant at the Callide Power Station in Queensland, Australia, exploded. Teslarati reported that the explosion resulted in mass power outages from the border of New South Wales to Cairns, with over 470,000 customers affected. The explosion also … [continued]
TransAlta Renewables has announced the commercial operation of WindCharger, a milestone energy storage project powered by Tesla Megapacks.
Tesla has broken yet another record. This time it’s for energy storage installations. Tesla’s storage business deployed 750 MWh in Q3.
We just pulled down an article about vanadium flow batteries versus lithium-ion batteries for long-duration energy storage because Tesla CEO Elon Musk responded, “This article is wildly incorrect about lithium battery costs by a factor of 5 or more presently & 10X long-term.” However, that raised more questions than answers for me, and I now have some extra details from Elon regarding Tesla energy storage pricing, including information that I don’t think was previously public.
Tesla started working to improve energy storage years ago in order to deal with the foreseeable rise in intermittent renewable energy production.
The Qatar General Electricity and Water Corporation (KAHRAMAA) has tapped Tesla for the first energy storage installation in the State of Qatar. The new 1 MW/4 MWh Tesla Megapack installation will supply power at peak consumption and provide power during off-peak periods.
We’ve learned a few things about the Tesla Semi battery lately that I haven’t seen elsewhere, so I decided to create an article (and bad joke) about it.
Tesla energy storage is in high demand, growing faster than Tesla can keep up. Meanwhile, solar demand is down, but much if not all of that relates to the coronavirus shutdown.
