The new, produced by Tesla and Power Wall Home Battery-called energy storage | © Patrick T. Fallon / Reuters
The electric car maker Tesla will sell its batteries in future also to households and businesses. “Our goal is to fundamentally change the way how the world’s energy use,” said company founder Elon Musk, ending introduced the Tesla Energy said program.
The Power Wall Home Battery is either seven or ten kilowatt hours storage are delivered. The PowerPack called option for companies is unlimited expandable, Musk said. Users it will thus be possible to store electricity from solar or wind power and feed it into the grid later. Owners of the Tesla batteries are so able to earn money.
In order to establish the product on the German market, Tesla will cooperate with the green electricity provider Lichtblick says Spiegel Online . Lichtblick plan to connect hunderttauende small power plants and storage together and centrally controlled. A so arising virtual power plant is able to compensate for the ever-increasing fluctuations in the power grid within minutes.
The Tesla battery it should but also allow users to save energy if they do not produce themselves. On a current market with fluctuating prices, consumers could thus make money when they save electricity at a low price and feed it later at a more expensive price back into the network.
Customers in the US can powerwall battery from order immediately. The base model costs $ 3,000, the ten kilowatt hours saved version 3.500 US dollars. Tesla plans to ship the batteries in the late summer starting. When the technology will be available in Germany, is still unclear.
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