Tesla has highlighted an essential milestone within the deployment of battery energy in Texas this month, as photo voltaic and vitality storage methods proceed to grow to be utilized in growing volumes.
On Monday, the Tesla Vitality account on X reposted an vitality deployment milestone from the Electrical Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), which manages the overwhelming majority {of electrical} operations in Texas. In response to Tesla and the company, batteries despatched extra energy to the grid in Texas on August 20 than ever earlier than.
It was additionally a record-breaking day general for demand, photo voltaic era, and web load, resulting in the document day in battery discharge and indicating the altering vitality panorama because the renewable vitality storage trade grows.
“Batteries despatched extra energy to the grid in ERCOT than ever earlier than,” wrote ERCOT within the authentic thread. “Shattering the earlier document, battery discharge peaked 20 % increased than the earlier document set solely the day earlier than as ERCOT launched ECRS absolutely.”
Batteries despatched extra energy to the grid in @ERCOT_ISO than ever earlier than https://t.co/6s2mWAkyys
— Tesla Vitality (@teslaenergy) August 26, 2024
Tesla has been a serious participant within the vitality storage trade, with the corporate providing two predominant merchandise for storing generated vitality: its grid-scale Megapack batteries, and its smaller dwelling and industrial Powerwall batteries.
Tesla builds its Megapack at a manufacturing facility, dubbed a “Megafactory,” in Lathrop, California, and it builds the Powerwall at its Gigafactory in Sparks, Nevada. The corporate has additionally begun development on its second Megafactory in Shanghai, China, with each amenities aiming for an annual manufacturing of 10,000 Megapacks upon reaching quantity manufacturing.
Within the second quarter, Tesla posted a document of 9.4 GWh of battery storage deployed, and the corporate has already predicted that the gross sales development charge of its vitality division would outpace that of its automotive enterprise in 2024. Elon Musk additionally famous final yr that the vitality arm was rapidly changing into the corporate’s highest-margin enterprise.
Simply final week, Tesla additionally produced a document variety of Powerwall battery items at Giga Nevada, after the corporate surpassed 600,000 Powerwall installations globally in February.
Final August, Tesla was additionally authorized by Texas to pilot its Digital Energy Plant (VPP) program, which lets Powerwall homeowners promote electrical energy again to {the electrical} grid throughout instances of peak demand.
Tesla has additionally deployed a number of Megapack batteries within the state, with the corporate final month touchdown an over $3 billion contract to construct 15.3 GWh of Megapacks throughout three Texas websites.
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