TESLA POWERWALL - Energy Storage for the Home

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The Tesla Motor Company, who specialise in Electric Vehicles, also use their Lithium-Ion battery technology for domestic power storage systems.
This means that you can take "off-peak" cheaper energy from the grid and store it in your battery system to use when YOU want to.
It also means that you can easily store any energy that you generate yourself using solar panels or turbines etc.

They look pretty good too!



From their press release:

Tesla Powerwall is a rechargeable lithium-ion battery designed to store energy at a residential level for load shifting, backup power and self-consumption of solar power generation. Powerwall consists of Tesla’s lithium-ion battery pack, liquid thermal control system and software that receives dispatch commands from a solar inverter. The unit mounts seamlessly on a wall and is integrated with the local grid to harness excess power and give customers the flexibility to draw energy from their own reserve.

The battery can provide a number of different benefits to the customer including:

Load shifting – The battery can provide financial savings to its owner by charging during low rate periods when demand for electricity is lower and discharging during more expensive rate periods when electricity demand is higher
Increasing self-consumption of solar power generation – The battery can store surplus solar energy not used at the time it is generated and use that energy later when the sun is not shining
Back-up power – Assures power in the event of an outage

Powerwall increases the capacity for a household’s solar consumption, while also offering backup functionality during grid outages.

HERE is a LINK to Tesla's Press Release Kit

With the right mix of Solar/Turbine and Tesla Powerwall, you could even go COMPLETELY OFF THE POWER GRID!
Now THAT's an IDEA that I LIKE!

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Further Reading:
LINK to Tesla's UK site
LINK to Article on EatTommorow dotcom