Breaking Energy: Tesla Battery for Homes Could Store Wind & Solar Power.

Breaking Energy is covering the newly unvieled Tesla battery. The highlights, which will impact electric providers, transmission lines, and generators:

• “At the utility level, Tesla’s Powerpack battery could open up avenues for utilities to grow wind and solar energy in their power generation matrices. The Powerpack system comprises 100-kWh battery blocks grouped to scale from 500 kWh to 10 MWh – capable of two-hour or four-hour net discharge power using grid-tied bidirectional inverters.”
• “For homes, the smaller Powerwall battery will have significant impacts on consumers and utilities by operating from behind the meter. Tesla’s Powerwall offerings include a 7-kWh model ($3,000) and a 10-kWh model ($3,500), both of which would make electricity from residential rooftop solar panels available at any time and eliminate the need to sell excess solar energy back into the grid.”