Important news in home energy management: Tesla has launched a program thanks to an agreement with the Californian electricity utility PG&E – for now only in the US – which will pay the owners of Powerwall, a proprietary home battery system that charges using electricity generated by solar panelswhich will be able to send extra electricity to the grid in the event of a blackout or emergency.
In fact, with this function, the Powerwalls of Elon Musk’s company are transformed into a “virtual power plant”. In detail, when the California grid operator (CAISO or California Independent System Operator) issues an energy emergency alert of any kind i Powerwall owners will receive $ 2 for every kilowatt hour add-on that they feed into the network. Payments will be made “on an annual basis or more frequently as Tesla determines.”
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Tesla (who is already working on a similar initiative in Australia) had already launched a similar experimental program last July, but it was voluntary and without payments. Now, with a monetary incentive to entice participants, the program could grow enough to become a significant, clean, backup power source in California.
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