Many new EV owners (and solar customers) need to upgrade their electrical panel. That panel, which is so critical to your home’s energy, uses antiquated technology. It’s mostly a big dumb circuit breaker. Well, that was until Arch Rao came along to turn that panel into an intelligent, app-controlled energy gateway.
Tesla is partnering with Sunrun, the biggest residential solar installer in the US, to deploy Powerwalls with their solar systems.
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Tesla confirmed that it installed its 100,000th Powerwall, the automaker’s home battery pack, during the last quarter.
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Tesla has released a new Powerwall feature to allow Tesla owners to charge their cars efficiently during power outages using the home battery pack.
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A family who was among the first to get a Tesla Powerwall installed at their home four years ago said in a review that the home battery pack helped them save over $8,000 on their power bill.
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Tesla is adding a rare new market to its Powerwall deployment. The home battery pack is now available for installation in Japan.
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Tesla is starting to ramp up the deployment of Powerwalls and it is proving useful for many homeowners.
Today, Tesla shared a picture of a Powerwall house with lights on while a power outage plunged an entire neighborhood in the dark.
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Tesla is working on a giant virtual power plant made of 50,000 Powerwalls and solar systems in Australia and the local government says that the first phases have shown a reduction in electricity rates by “more than 20%.”
Now they are moving to the third phase of the virtual power plant.
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Tesla has joined National Grid’s virtual power plant to give Powerwall owners the chance to earn up to $1,000 per year to give the electric utility access to some of their power.
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Tesla’s ‘Storm Watch’ was activated for ‘hundreds’ of Powerwall owners living around the California wildfires, says CEO Elon Musk.
Last year, Tesla started integrating features for Powerwall and solar customers to its mobile for vehicle owners.
Earlier this year, it included adding a new ‘Storm Watch’ to detect storms and prepare by storing energy in case of power outages.
Tesla described the new feature:
“When a storm or severe weather is on the horizon, increasing the likelihood of a utility power outage, Powerwall triggers Storm Watch. This mode automatically charges Powerwall to maximum capacity so it can provide backup power.
The Tesla app notifies customers that Powerwall has activated Storm Watch. The mode remains active until the weather event ends, at which time the system returns to its previously selected mode. It is possible to disable this mode by going to the Tesla app, selecting ‘Customize’ and then ‘Storm Watch.’”
It quickly proved useful as homeowners with the Tesla Powerwall in Queensland, Australia have reported that Tesla activated the feature ahead of a cyclone coming.
Tesla now says that the feature was also activated in California for some homeowners with Powerwall.
CEO Elon Musk said on Twitter:
“Storm Watch was active for hundreds of Powerwall customers this weekend as a result of the National Weather Service’s Red Flag Fire Warnings in California, and we will continue to activate it whenever there advance awareness of a potential power outage or physical danger.”
Some wildfires in California have been recently causing power outages.
Tesla decides when to activate Storm Watch and push it to Powerwall owners, but they can opt out of the program if they are not worried about the weather, or the possibility of losing power, and they want their home battery pack to keep cycling like it normally does.
As we recently reported, the rollout of Powerwalls has been relatively slow, but Tesla says that it is planning to ramp production throughout the second half of 2019.
We have heard of a batch of 250 Tesla Powerwalls going to the UK just last week.
Tesla has been having a tough time ramping up its Powerwall production, but we are now starting to see more projects including a new batch of 250 Tesla Powerwalls going to the UK.
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An electric utility in Vermont is launching a new trial program with the goal to “make traditional meters obsolete” by using Tesla Powerwalls to track energy usage on top of the many other benefits of Tesla’s home energy battery pack.
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Tesla is launching today the ability to use Powerwall 2 for backup power in Europe through its new Gateway 2 hardware.
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Tesla Powerwall is the most requested home energy storage device by consumers, according to a new survey of solar installers.
The problem is that most of them can’t get Tesla’s home battery pack.
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Australia is already a huge market for Tesla Powerwall for many reasons. But now you can add one more: the South Australian government has approved Tesla’s home battery pack for an important subsidy worth ~50% of the battery pack for up to 40,000 homes.
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Tesla activated the special ‘Storm Watch’ mode of its Powerwall 2 home battery pack to keep the lights on at its customer’s homes with the upcoming cyclone in Australia.
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Tesla’s plan to deploy 50,000 Powerwalls in Australia in order to create a giant virtual power plant is moving forward with 1,000 more homes as part of the second phase.
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When we talk about Tesla being production constrained, we most often talk about the company’s vehicles. But the Powerwall, Tesla’s home battery pack, might be its most production constrained product.
Now, the company has significantly increased Powerwall’s price just as it is expected to ramp up production.
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Tesla has updated its Powerwall and mobile app to add new features to its home battery pack system, including a ‘Storm Watch’ feature that automatically detect incoming storms and prepare for them by keeping energy stored in the Powerwall.
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The deal was jeopardized after a new government was elected in the state a few weeks later, but they have since come around and confirmed that they will be moving forward with Tesla’s initiative as long as it gets financing.
Now, Tesla has deployed first 100 Powerwalls for the virtual power plant in Australia and it’s already having an impact.
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Tesla has finally started delivering and installing the Powerwall 2 Founders series, a long-awaited Tesla referral program reward.
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Vermont is starting to get a significant number of Tesla Powerwalls installed through the company’s partnership with Green Mountain Power (GMP), an important electric utility in Vermont.
This latest heat wave in the northeast has hit Vermont pretty hard and GMP says that the energy storage capacity of its network of Powerwalls is making the difference during the peak demand.
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Ever since the island of Puerto Rico’s power grid was destroyed by hurricanes last year, power outages have plagued the island.
Tesla has been focusing on deploying solar and energy storage on the island in order to help get power back to more people quicker.
One homeowner with a Tesla Powerwall and solar array shows how it can keep the lights on and run off-grid during outages.
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A new government was elected in the state a few weeks later and they quickly cast doubts about following through with the massive plan.
But now they confirmed that they will be moving forward with Tesla’s initiative.
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