January 18th, 2021 | by Steve Hanley
Rooftop solar is great. It takes a part of your home that is used for nothing except keeping the rain and snow out and turns it into a place that generates electricity for you to use in your home or sell back to your local utility if local policies and rate structures permit. There is only one problem
December 4th, 2020 | by Steve Hanley
Mississippi Power will begin developing in 2021 what it calls a smart neighborhood, in which all the homes will feature a Tesla Solar Roof and Powerwall residential storage battery.
October 21st, 2020 | by Johnna Crider
Tesla has broken yet another record. This time it's for energy storage installations. Tesla's storage business deployed 750 MWh in
October 5th, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
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
September 9th, 2020 | by Kyle Field
Tesla enabled its fleet of deployed Powerwalls in affected areas of California to charge up from the grid by activating [&hellip
September 3rd, 2020 | by Kyle Field
Earlier this year, Tesla activated our Tesla Solar Roof system with two Powerwalls in the garage for storage. After 6 [&hellip
September 1st, 2020 | by Carolyn Fortuna
So many exciting innovations are happening in the world of cleantech!
August 26th, 2020 | by Remco van der Horst
Tesla started working to improve energy storage years ago in order to deal with the foreseeable rise in intermittent renewable energy production
August 14th, 2020 | by Kyle Field
Tesla's Solar Roof is potentially one of the most disruptive products in the portfolio, but presents a massive challenge to roll out at scale. Produced at Tesla's Solar Gigafactory in Buffalo, New York, Tesla struggled to refine the design of the tiles not only for mass production, but for rapid, efficient, and long-lasting installations. Roof tiles are no joke and must produce power and protect the home if they are to succeed
August 6th, 2020 | by Kyle Field
It's super easy for customers in one of the sunniest places in the world, Southern California, to add solar and storage to their home. Adding batteries to a home is a lot like adding a generator to your home as a backup power source, but the real secret in the sauce is pairing batteries with rooftop solar. In this configuration, the rooftop solar will continuously recharge the home battery, allowing the system to provide power to a home for much longer
August 5th, 2020 | by Kyle Field
Our local utility notified us that a power outage with an 8-hour outage window spanning from 9am to 5pm was scheduled for June 3rd. For most people, in a non-pandemic world, that would not be a problem. People are normally at work during the day, so the outage passes by unnoticed
July 26th, 2020 | by Maarten Vinkhuyzen
On the Tesla earnings call last Wednesday, July 22, Elon mentioned the renewable energy stack for the home. Tesla was focused on the big three: collection (solar), storage (Li-on batteries), and consumption (transport). These are indeed three defining parts of the renewable energy cycle for private persons
June 19th, 2020 | by Johnna Crider
Tesla has been given the green light to generate electricity in the UK. It's been granted an electricity generation license and Ofgem, an energy regulator, has published a press release stating
May 7th, 2020 | by Guest Contributor
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
April 17th, 2020 | by Steve Hanley
Tesla has updated its Powerwall app to allow direct control of how much stored energy is devoted to charging a car and how much is reserved go power a home.
April 8th, 2020 | by Steve Hanley
The Tesla virtual power plant in South Australia is only 2% complete but already it has proven its worth many times over while lowering utility bills for many customers.
March 30th, 2020 | by Jo Borrás
Van life is one of those trendy hashtags that's easily overlooked these days, but a #vanlife lived outdoors, on the trails, and "away from it all" may be just what the social distancing doctor ordered — and if you're going to do it, you might as well do it in style. Is a Ram ProMaster + Tesla battery pack the winning formula to living your best life
