Tag: energy
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Tesla Powerwall paves the way for human kindness after bushfires cause 2-week outages
Tesla’s humble home battery unit proved to be the source of comfort for a group of Mallacoota, Australia residents after a massive bushfire ravaged the region and caused extended power outages. For two weeks, homeowners Kate and Phil, whose home is equipped with solar panels and a Tesla Powerwall, supported their neighbors who were also…
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The art of thoughtful disruption: reimagining the Opower Home Energy Report (part 1)
Our perception of change is interesting: it can feel gradual or sudden, and sometimes it feels gradual while you are in it and then incredibly fast when you look back. Reed Hastings’ decision to move people away from DVDs and toward Netflix’s new online streaming platform back in 2011 was sudden, and it almost killed…
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Tesla’s big battery in South Australia is about to bring more pain to coal and gas plants
Tesla’so big battery in South Australia is about to deal a much more painful blow to the nation ’s gas and coal industry, with recent reports stating the Powerpack plantation ’s 50 MWh addition is just about ready to become triggered. With the updates in place, the South Australia battery, which is already among the…
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Tesla’s expansion of product offerings shows that a major expansion is in the making
Over the recent weeks, Tesla appears to be setting the stage for an intensive expansion of its product offerings. From the United States to China, the company seems to be intent on pursuing more and more avenues for its electric car and energy business. This hints at one thing: a major expansion is underway, and…
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Tesla Megapacks help Alberta, Canada push towards sustainability
Tesla has unloaded Megapacks to a “Windcharger” in Canada, which will store massive amounts of energy from a large wind farm in the province of Alberta. TransAlta owns the Windcharger project through its “wholly-owned subsidiary,” the Western Sustainable Power Corporation. According to TransAlta’s website, the company has been looking for an appropriate battery storage solution…
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Residential energy is becoming companies’ business
Residential energy is becoming companies’ business Sarah Golden Fri, 05/29/2020 – 01:45 In this crazy upside-down world, the line between residential and commercial energy is getting fuzzy. Everything changed so quickly, it makes sense that climate and energy teams have yet to figure out how to account for the shift. But as companies such as…
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Tesla poised to unlock vehicle-to-grid abilities with ‘bi-directional’ charging systems
It appears that Tesla is creating up to the ultimate release of car to grid (V2G) features for its fleet. Hints of the technology could be understood from the codes inside the company’s vehicles, in addition to the current findings of Cruise Staff fleet Reliability Engineer Marco Gaxiola, that happened to carry out an investigation…
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Tesla takes first steps to become an electric utility, starting with the UK
It appears that Tesla has really taken a substantial step forward in its efforts. Just this past Tuesday, Tesla Energy manufacturing sales manager Evan Rice applied the UK’so gas and Electricity Markets Authoritys energy regulator, for a license to create electricity. Tesla did not disclose why it’s applying for such a license, although an industry…
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Clean energy is now a hot investment
Welcome to POLITICO’s new Sustainable Finance Spotlight — an extension of the Global Translations newsletter. Each week we track major issues facing the globe. Sign up here. Green economists have combined forces in an Oxford University paper to identify environmentally friendly public investments with quick positive economic effects. The authors, including Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz,…
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Tesla’s million mile battery is a golden goose for large-scale energy projects
Tesla Energy is a sleeping giant, seldom considered by analysts covering TSLA stock and underrated compared to the organization ’s electric automobile enterprise. But some thing in Tesla’s horizon might well be a huge catalyst which may wake the behemoth that’s the firm ’s Energy branch: the million-mile battery that is upcoming. Tesla’s battery. Patents…