LISTEN: Tesla home battery could start energy revolution

LISTEN: Tesla home battery could start energy revolution

Postby Oscar » Thu May 07, 2015 11:09 am

LISTEN: Elon Musk's Tesla home battery could start energy revolution

[ http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the- ... -1.3055129 ]

CBC Radio The Current Thursday April 30, 2015

EXCERPT:

Later today, Mr. Musk and his company SolarCity are expected to unveil a large-scale battery capable of powering an entire house. Just put it in the garage, attach it to some solar panels, and you could be off the power grid. Three hundred homes in California, already are, including this one. (Video )

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Re: LISTEN: Tesla home battery could start energy revolutio

Postby Oscar » Sat Jun 27, 2015 9:48 am

Beyond the Tesla Powerwall: How energy storage is shaping up in Ontario

[ http://www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episod ... -powerwall ]

Energy storage will change everything

Published June 20, 2015

There are not many entrepreneurs who can command a room like Elon Musk. When he stepped onto a stage in May to unveil the Powerwall, the audience oohed and ahhed and dutifully pre-ordered more than 38,000 of Tesla’s new home battery systems. [ http://www.theverge.com/2015/5/6/856193 ... -announced ]

And while Tesla gets the headlines, other energy storage players shouldn’t be jealous. Musk just gave the nascent industry a billion dollars worth of free press. And in Canada it’s Ontario that’s leading the way in deploying energy storage systems in the field. While the Tesla Powerwall won’t be available to the public until next year, Panasonic Eco Solutions and a couple of other partners are doing an interesting pilot project in Oshawa. [ http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/2 ... Y7E--nbJwF ]

They’re installing 30 systems that combine solar PV and batteries: a six-kilowatt solar system with batteries that can store up to 10 kilowatt-hours.

“Most utilities see storage as something that is coming. Oshawa Power is being very progressive and trying to learn more about the technology, how it's going to interface with their grid and how customers are going to use it,” says Sylvie Briz of Panasonic Eco Solutions.

Without all the hoopla, Panasonic has also started pilot projects in Australia. They’re installing eight-kilowatt-hour lithium ion battery storage systems that can provide two kilowatts of electricity in homes. The system is scaled for a five-kilowatt home solar system and can help double the home's rate of self-consumption of solar electricity.
[ http://reneweconomy.com.au/2015/panason ... ties-57179 ]

And deployment really is the key. No one knows what niche energy storage is going to fill in the energy market until it’s deployed in sufficient numbers.

“The fact is that storage can play in dozens of different areas of the electricity market, whether it's just providing backup, whether it's time shifting, whether it's bulk storage for holding wind energy — when the wind's blowing and we don't need it — or solar energy when we want to deploy it at a later time. Whether it's just doing voltage regulation or grid regulation. Sorting it out and coming up with rules once they nail that, I think it's going to open up this whole world of innovation,” says Tyler Hamilton, editor of Corporate Knights magazine.

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