Elon Musk
Some 50,000 homes in South Australia will receive solar panels and Tesla batteries, the state government announced Sunday, in a landmark plan to turn houses into a giant, interconnected power plant.
South Australia is already home to world’s biggest battery in an Elon Musk-driven project to provide electricity for more than 30,000 homes.
The state government has since been looking for more ways — particularly through renewables — to address its energy woes after an “unprecedented” storm caused a state-wide blackout in 2016.
Under a new plan unveiled on Sunday, a network of solar panels linked to rechargeable batteries will be provided free to households and financed by the sale of excess electricity generated by the network, the government said.
“My government has already delivered the world’s biggest battery, now we will deliver the world’s largest virtual power plant,” state Premier Jay Weatherill said in a statement.
“We will use people’s homes as a way to generate energy for the South Australian grid, with participating households benefitting with significant savings in their energy bills.”
A trial phase will begin […]
I keep hoping that Tesla and/or people like him will step forward and provide this kind of assistance to the area of Puerto Rico that is still without power. Those people have suffered long enough, and have been utterly abandobed by the Trump administration. One of those giant batteries might be just the ticket. It’s time for a effort to be mounted by humanitarian people with the means and the tecnological skill to come to their rescue. Doing this could benefit both the people of Puerto Rico and those who seek to further the cause of sustainable, renewable sources of energy.
I mean to say Elon Musk, not Tesla. I wish this comment’s page had an edit option.