Tesla Energy

My solar system install is in progress. All the panels are mounted on the roof, the inverter and other components are mounted inside my garage and the Powerwall was brought to my house today. It will be mounted today, everything connected up and tested, and if all goes well this week a SolarEdge...

OK, in this video of the Gigafactory tour at 30:00 the tour guide tells us that each Powerwall consists of a "pod". Each pod consists of 2 modules. A Powerpack consists of 16 pods or 32 modules. He states the module of 14x32 cells is the same form factor that is used in the model S. He later...

OK, who know's what Tesla/SolarCity is going to release in a few months but what if? What if you could buy a roof that: Never needed replacing Looked beautiful Generated more power than your house consumes Integrated with the new Powerwall effortlessly Was expensive but was eligible for the...

From yesterdays's Solaredge quarterly earnings conference call: So, currently where everything that Tesla ship, they ship with our inverters. And every inverter we ship with Tesla battery. Our integration with LG is not yet finished. So currently all the market if you want to buy it today and...

Ok, I guess I'm just dense but I don't see what this is getting at. Kind of like once the deal goes through nothing much will have changed. ??? Elon Musk - Adam Zyglis

here is a link to Australians proposed VPP, Virtual power plant, using (proposed) 1,000 PV arrays and ~7kW battery banks for a 7 megawatt (5 megawatt usable) power. I would really like to buy/rent/PPA/whatever a PV array from SCTY and a powerwall (or 2) with inverter that has capability of...

SolarCity only operates in a select few states. For this reason, I had little interest in SolarCity, as I'm not in one of those states. I've been looking for other solar installers. But then Tesla decides it is time to acquire SolarCity. Will this change availability? Will it allow them to...

On today's (Aug 3) 2Q conference call, Elon stated that Tesla will be making their own inverters for Powerwall, solar panels, etc. So so much for SolarEdge and other manufacturers.

DETROIT (AP) — Tesla wants to put its car and energy storage businesses under one solar-powered roof. Tesla said Monday it will buy solar panel maker SolarCity Corp. in an all-stock deal worth $2.6 billion. The deal must still be approved by the government and shareholders at both companies...

I am thinking that now that Solar City is part of Tesla we could see a team at Tesla exclusively focused on the design and sale of fully integrated solar power plants to utilities and governments to directly compete against Coal/Gas/Nuclear/Hyrdo power plants. I would bet that Tesla will design...

Energy Storage Teaches Utilities How To Hurry

Does Powerwall come with an inverter and a way to energize only specific circuits if a grid connection is dropped?

At the Gigafactory event I spoke with someone in the upper levels of Tesla Energy (no I won't reveal their name, but definitely an authoritative source) who told me that they have received about 160,000 Powerwall reservations in the US since the Powerwall launch in May 2015. I was amazed by the...

Live Blog: Tesla Unveils the Gigafactory starting at 4PM PDT. A bus took the press after 11AM this morning. Tesla vehicles start to line up.

Rather than collect solar energy at 100 Watts per square meter from a source 93 million miles away for a few hours per day; does it not make more sense to collect energy with small high power density photovoltaic collector from a local energy source that is available 24 hours a day? Apparently...

What if we should read the master plan literally? "Create stunning solar roofs with seamlessly integrated battery storage" Imagine this: a solar panel with batteries attached to the back of it. Thus it can "provide power" even after sunset! Between the solar panel and the batteries coolant...

As Tesla car owners, We have a very large battery pack in our car from 60kwh up to 90kwh. When the car is parked in our garage during the day, why not let us use the car battery to power our house when the electricity is super expensive? When electricity gets cheap at night, we can charge the...

FYI, a local Texan Powerwall distributor is hosting their launch party. Details here: Powerwall Launch Party Thursday July 21, 6:00pm - 8:00pm Powerwall is ready to launch. You have a chance to join us in celebrating this exciting new era of energy efficiency! We still have a few spots...

when do these go out TIA

Relatively simple scenario: I would like to be able to run the A/C in my RV for about 2 hours when I'm at a rest stop, and then recharge it overnight at my destination. The A/C can run on a TT30 (110V / 30 amp), which works out to about 2.64 kW at 80%. So for 2 hours that draws about 5Kwh...

Got a call from baker electric solar stating that they are calling regarding my powerwall reservation? They want $13k for the install?? Are you getting calls from providers or is this a spam??

Straight from the Tesla blog post about Tesla offering to acquire SolarCity was this fun little nugget: "We would be able to maximize and build on the core competencies of each company. Tesla’s experience in design, engineering, and manufacturing should help continue to advance solar panel...

I am about to build a small cabin (maybe 500 sq ft) on some very remote land. There's no electricity or other utilities at or near the land (including water/sewer). I suspect I'll have a small fridge, some lights, maybe a tv and laptop (with a satellite internet connection). I know there's a...

My quick, initial reflections: Wowza, Tesla Offers To Buy SolarCity!! PR: Tesla Makes Offer to Acquire SolarCity

The forum contains not a single reference to V2grid so I'm starting a thread on this. Can anyone answer my question as to why Tesla doesn't support the use of car traction batteries to power a home or external gear on an emergency basis? Let's not focus on the temptation this would create to...

At the shareholder's meeting today, Elon revealed that Tesla has reanalyzed how many Gigawatts of battery storage the completed plant will be able to produce and he believes it could produce up to triple the amount they previously estimated, and that the mix may be more like 50/50 car batteries...

What is up with the Powerwall? I reserved one on the 1st day we were allowed to. It stated deliveries start in the summer if I remember correctly. It is almost the middle of 2016 and I haven't heard anything from Tesla.

What are the typical Supercharger power requirements? (How many kW it normally takes from the grid?) As we know multiple chargers working in parallel can deliver up to 120 kW. But typically if we have multiple telas charging in parallel the output power is going down. Plus sometimes...

Marin college installing 5 480kW powerpacks. unclear how much kWh Marin college gets Tesla batteries for solar power storage

I'm getting pretty sick of my old cordless drills and multi-tools, but I'm not buying replacements until these next gen lithium cells come online. How long until we have product lines of tools using combinations of single Tesla battery cells? Will Dewalt come out with a line of tools using to...

Electric Cars to Rival Tesla's Powerwall in Nissan Deal Crazy high price. Not sure what to say but this would sure kill those leaf batteries in a hurry.

I am looking into getting solar-panels for our house. Does anybody know if powerwalls are actually shipping in Europe? Or even better are any shipping in Denmark?

Maybe this is obvious, but will a Powerwall power the house while it has a charge, and then automatically switch out to allow the house to be powered by the power company otherwise? Then switch back in when it has a charge again, etc.? I'm asking because I have solar panels, but my local power...

See Tesla Powerwalls for Home Energy Storage Are Hitting U.S. Market My spouse is quoted about halfway into that article.

I have no solar panels on my roof yet, but am hoping to add some to offset a portion of my electricity use. About half of the electricity I buy each month is consumed by my Model S, so I don't care whether the solar generated power goes into my appliances or my car. It seems to me that it would...

InsideEVs posted some pricing information for Powerpack. Tesla Energy Reveals Powerpack Pricing, Starting From 200 kWh Of Storage Nowhere near the original stated $250/kWh for the Powerpacks. Maybe had to switch to more expensive cells because of the cycling. I don't see how Tesla Energy is...

I know that currently the StorEdge inverter can be used to charge a single PowerWall. I haven't had much luck getting concrete answers to hooking up multiple PowerWalls to a single inverter. Does anyone here know whether/how/if it's possible to use multiple PowerWalls with a single StorEdge ...

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I just wanted to get an idea of how many batteries people are getting for their house. I know it's depends on many variables, like much the house uses, how much they generate etc etc. I've been looking to get into solar, but with the new changes that PG&E is doing with the rates I think the...

Question: Can the powerwall discharge to the grid? Arbitrage is the key question. Owner who 'right sized', installed PV systems that optimized TOU+Net metering to be near zero at tru-ups. For me, we've since added 2 EVs and a pool and now drawing about 15kWH in the evenings (though still...

My home in North Texas has a reflective standing seam metal roof. Last year my wife contacted Solar City about solar panel installation on our house. They were all up for it until she mentioned we have a standing seam metal roof. Suddenly they're referring to some rule or law that prevents them...

I seem to recall Elon tweeting something about that months ago.

I do have a co worker who is from the Philippines. She lives in Belgium but wishers to buy a Powerwall to install in her parents house in the Philippines. Is it possible to just buy it here and have it shipped there. Or is Tesla selling it already there also? Already many thanks for the info!

A new Tesla Powerpack and solar installation shows the potential of the system for commercial projects I gather the purchase was to take advantage of TOU arbitrage, presumably the early evening hours. I wonder how long it will take for the utility to decide that in fact those hours are not...

Check it out, this is SolarEdge's StorEdge manual with instructions on how to connect to a Powerwall. Lots of technical info here. http://www.solaredge.us/files/pdfs/storedge_backup_installation_guide_NA.PDF

I reserved one on the first day I was allowed to. I just checked my confirmation email and it stated that power walls will be shipping nationwide by October. It is now 6 months past that and I haven't heard a thing. Anyone have any info?

Can Powerwall and solar system share the same inverter?

From the horse's mouth. Step change improvement apparently. From about 9 minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1Zvatbdydk