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    If you could provide power to your neighbors, would you?

    The grid is more unstable each year due to increasing renewable penetration without sufficient energy storage. It was designed for slow, stable, turbine-based generators and we are offsetting them with massive banks of inverters that don't contribute a fraction of the stability. The grid of the...
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    Can I join Tesla Virtual Power Plant if I don't have solar?

    I'm a PG&E customer with two Tesla Powerwalls and Tesla Backup Gateway 2. I charge the batteries after midnight, and then they discharge during peak and semi-peak hours (3pm-12am). I don't export any energy back to the grid because I don't have solar. Can I still join Tesla Virtual PowerPlant...
  3. winfield100

    Virtual Power Plant (VPP). Tesla Energy future?

    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...