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SolarCity is Ready to Become an Utility Service Provider

The sun could soon be shining at night thanks to Elon Musk and Tesla/SolarCity. Tesla Energy will store it – and the SolarCity Utilities Services will deliver it to you even at night.

Yusuf Demir
Yusuf DemirCloud & Software Reporter
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SolarCity is Ready to Become an Utility Service Provider

The sun could soon be shining at night thanks to Elon Musk and Tesla/SolarCity. Tesla Energy will store it – and the SolarCity Utilities Services will deliver it to you even at night. Tesla is going to put in place more storage than the USA did in 2015 and this is just via SolarCity. According to the press releases – one which detailed the Utility and Grid services, the other was about solar power systems and storage for electricity alongside the Connecticut Municipal Electric Energy Cooperative.

It is now clear that SolarCity is in a great position to go the extra mile and carry out work that involved more than solar power kits that are meant for use in residential properties. The project is an incredibly large one and shows the commitment that Elon Musk towards batteries and leading the campaign against the companies providing fossil fuels.


Featured image: Connecticut Municipal Electric Energy Cooperative and SolarCity have announced the development of 13 megawatts (AC) of solar power systems and at least 1.5 megawatts (6.0-megawatt hours) of energy storage systems located in southern Connecticut. (sample rendering) Source:PR Newswire

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Dispatchable Storage solutions on a large scale are now being offered by SolarCity. Energy storage is being combined with solar storage and can access low-cost solar power when it is most needed. Capacity charges can be a thing of the past for utilities, and leak loads can be managed at a lower cost than fossil fuel companies will charge.

Microgrids are also provided by SolarCity, and when it is considered that around 500,000 vehicles per year will be produced by Tesla, it is clear why there is the need to expand the Gigafactory by 40%. This will be particularly useful when a million cars a year are leaving the Freemont factory.

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Yusuf Demir

Yusuf Demir

Cloud & Software Reporter

Yusuf Demir is the Cloud & Software Reporter at TrendinTech, where he covers cloud infrastructure, enterprise platforms, developer tools and the digital transformation of businesses in the UK and the United States. He previously reported on enterprise technology for The Register in London and covered the cloud and SaaS beat for TechCrunch, following the competition between AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, the open source licensing disputes and the rise of Kubernetes. Yusuf holds an MEng in Computing from Imperial College London and speaks regularly at KubeCon and AWS re:Invent, where he moderates conversations with engineers and chief technology officers. He is most interested in the gap between vendor roadmaps and the systems engineers actually run, and in what the cloud bill looks like once the free credits expire.

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