Tesla Energy and utility scale projects

[GoTslaGo]

Richard Branson has an ambitious plan to wean the world off fossil fuels

Wonder how much billionaires talk to each other?

Quote:

The Caribbean Climate-Smart Coalition will work with global finance giants such as the Inter-American Development Bank, the World Bank, and the Caribbean Development Bank to mobilize $8 billion and bring new infrastructure and energy security to vulnerable regional communities.

End quote.

 

[larmor]

Richard Branson has an ambitious plan to wean the world off fossil fuels

Wonder how much billionaires talk to each other?

Quote:

The Caribbean Climate-Smart Coalition will work with global finance giants such as the Inter-American Development Bank, the World Bank, and the Caribbean Development Bank to mobilize $8 billion and bring new infrastructure and energy security to vulnerable regional communities.

End quote.

Someone please remind him that energy produced by wind and the sun are going to lose money and valuation of this project is as if right now less than zero...

 

[GoTslaGo]

Someone please remind him that energy produced by wind and the sun are going to lose money and valuation of this project is as if right now less than zero...

Maybe Elon should give him a call... suggest some batteries?

 

[TheTalkingMule]

Someone please remind him that energy produced by wind and the sun are going to lose money and valuation of this project is as if right now less than zero...

Replacing the centralized energy production system on most of these island with an interconnected solar/wind/storage microgrid scheme's will be far cheaper than what they have now.

Can you expand on your negative comments a bit? "Going to lose money"?

All they need is good policy and the market(Tesla and others) will handle the rest.

 

[generalenthu]

Seems like something official/semi official coming out of Puerto Rico regarding partnering with Tesla. Link in Spanish, but Google translate came to my rescue.

AEE empezará plan piloto de paneles solares en el sur

 

[SageBrush]

Roof top solar punching back NV energy

Regulators Deny NV Energy’s Rate Increase, Garnering Cheers From Solar Advocates

The rate increase was deferred to a different session, but great news for sure overall

 

[larmor]

Replacing the centralized energy production system on most of these island with an interconnected solar/wind/storage microgrid scheme's will be far cheaper than what they have now.

Can you expand on your negative comments a bit? "Going to lose money"?

All they need is good policy and the market(Tesla and others) will handle the rest.

Please excuse me, i was in sarcastic mode. Most of the general investment market sees no value, ie no $$, in energy produced with little operating cost.

 

[Paracelsus]

World's first crop farm fully powered by renewable energy will be in Australia using Tesla batteries as part of an expanding wind/battery storage marriage:

Stawell battery ‘not enough’ to help Victoria’s power issues

 

[generalenthu]

Something of a wonder just happened. A republican majority FERC unanimously asked Rick Perry to go shove it, as he came up with his proposed rule to subsidize coal at the expense of mainly renewables.

BREAKING: FERC rejects DOE NOPR, kicking resilience issue to grid operators

Ari Peskoe, the Energy Law wonk has a nice thread here.

Ari Peskoe on Twitter

 

[ggr]

I had two calls from Tesla today wanting to get started with our roof installation. The problem is that I still don't have a firm quote, and I'm currently in Zurich, so my calls have basically consisted of "call back when I'm awake, which will be tomorrow morning your time!". The second came in at 2am here, and I never did get back to sleep (at least so far, two hours later...)

 

[neroden]

Sounds like they're prioritizing California deliveries for the roof, then. I'm not that far from Buffalo, Tesla!

 

[TheTalkingMule]

From an investment standpoint I can't even imagine what the early numbers will look like for this expensive solar re-ramp within Tesla. Someone make sure we sedate SBenson for that portion of the 2Q18 earnings call.

 

[Paracelsus]

Nice article on LinkedIn regarding the electrification of Europe via North Africa large-scale solar projects:

A Word with Silvia Pariente-David - MENA CSP KIP

 

[schonelucht]

[URL='https://electrek.co/2018/01/11/aes-siemens-launch-fluence-energy-storage-startup-tesla-energy-world-biggest-battery-project/']AES and Siemens launch new energy storage startup to compete with Tesla Energy, will supply new world’s biggest battery project[/QUOTE]

The project from the title is a 400MWh installation. Currently they have nearly 500MWh in utility scale projects under management or planning.[/URL]

 

[generalenthu]

AES and Siemens launch new energy storage startup to compete with Tesla Energy, will supply new world’s biggest battery project

The project from the title is a 400MWh installation. Currently they have nearly 500MWh in utility scale projects under management or planning.

Did someone say there is no money to be made here in the energy storage business? If so, Tesla should not be attracting any competition. The bigger question for me is who is going to be supplying the cells for this venture. If I remember correctly AES buys these off-the-shelf.

 

[adiggs]

A month in, Tesla’s SA battery is surpassing expectations

An article about the first month of service of the big South Australia battery (Hornsdale Power Reserve) and what it's been up to. Now that we have a real battery in real service, people are following it closely to get a better sense of what it can do.

Very interesting reading, and generating excellent results. Results that looks like it's going to draw a lot more of itself into the market.

 

[adiggs]

Second Tesla “big battery” to power Victorian farm

Tesla selected to supply the storage component (in partnership, again, with Neoen) for a 20MW/34MWh batter as part of a wind farm in Victoria. This is the system that has been previously discussed, that will enable a large agribusiness / hydroponic operation / greenhouse to be built and operated.

The article has some additional details - these operations typically use natural gas to generate heat, and get excess CO2 that is also needed. But the gas was too expensive and could not be reliably sourced, leaving the company the choice of not doing the project (old default) or what they're actually doing - recasting the energy needs for the whole operation into renewable energy.

The article goes into more details about the larger energy system, and the specific needs of this particular industrial consumer.

 

[ValueAnalyst]

AES and Siemens launch new energy storage startup to compete with Tesla Energy, will supply new world’s biggest battery project

The project from the title is a 400MWh installation. Currently they have nearly 500MWh in utility scale projects under management or planning.

Did you see their plannned timeline to completion?

 

[jhm]

I suppose I should be posting Hornsdale stuff over here instead.

Shorting Oil, Hedging Tesla

 

[jhm]

Tesla to build 250MW “virtual power plant” in South Australia

I like this, 250MW/650MWh distributed over 50k homes.