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PluginIndia Electric Vehicles

Tesla Powerwall – Elon Musk tackles the dirty grid

8/5/2015

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By Johnson
Mr Elon Musk is at it again!  After taking on the finance industry, oil companies and even the space rocket industry, he is now  tackling the problem of dirty energy that is generated by most electricity grids of the world.
Introducing the Tesla Powerwall - solving the battery problem – once and for all.

When Elon Musk went about setting up a battery manufacturing plant called Gigafactory people thought that he was building battery plant for the cars that his company would be manufacturing.
People thought he would be selling about 10,000 Tesla cars a year at the maximum as they were quite expensive. But Elon being Elon was out thinking everybody and leaping ahead into building the fuel-storage-blocks of tomorrow. He will be building batteries not only for cars but also every damn thing that consumes power – from things like street lights, home power banks, community power banks, factory power banks, for schools, for markets, shopping malls etc. His customers could include rival car manufacturing companies, power plants, Solar/Wind home users, malls, multiplexes, schools, on-grid and off-grid communities, etc. These places could use multiple type of paid or free-clean energy to charge these power-banks.
Even for cars/buses/trucks if customers want to change to a new set of battery perhaps people could switch over to the Tesla powerwall.


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What is Tesla Powerwall?

The Tesla Powerwall is a big home battery made of lithium-ion and charges on solar energy. The batteries come in two variants, costing $3500 and $3,000, and are capable of storing 10 kwh and 7 kwh of energy respectively. To put this in perspective, a 1-kilowatt heater can run for ten hours with 10kWh of energy. These batteries are housed in a well-designed package and you can hang them on a wall. It’s about 4 feet by 7 feet and has a width of series are housed in a well-designed package and you can hang them on a wall. It’s about 4 feet by 7 feet and has a width of about 7 inches. The price, is also a third of such batteries available in the market.
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What problem does it solve?
The batteries are primed for home use, where typically more electricity is consumed during peak hours in the morning and evening. By storing the electricity generated during the day, the peak hour demand can be met with ease. Tesla has also announced a scalable Powerpack which it intends to sell to power utilities and corporations.

Solar power works if panels and batteries are affordable. Cost of panels are already falling, thanks largely to China. If battery prices are also on the way down, one can expect a lot of action in the domain. India has an ambitious solar energy plan, which will generate huge orders that will lead to economies of scale, helping solar energy reach ‘grid parity’ or the point where it costs the same as thermal power.

Powerwall begins shipping this summer in the USA. It comes in 10 kWh weekly cycle and 7 kWh daily cycle models. Both are guaranteed for ten years and are sufficient to power most homes during peak evening hours. Multiple batteries may be installed together for homes with greater energy need, up to 90 kWh total for the 10 kWh battery and 63 kWh total for the 7 kWh battery..

Can it be a game changer for India?
If successful, the battery will be a game changer in India’s standby power sector, which burns diesel. Diesel generators add up to an estimated 60,000 mw, or the combined capacity of 15 ultra-mega power plants. These are essential for malls, telecom towers, hospitals etc because a power cut can cripple operations. For residential areas, reliable low-cost storage can help consumers get off the grid, as is already happening in some western countries. In far-flung areas, such batteries will support setting up of microgrids in hamlets. In hilly areas, where one needs light more than fans, such technology, along with use of energy-efficient LED bulbs can power homes at a small cost.
The Tesla Powerwall opens up a huge range of opportunities. Earlier battery purchasing was a big headache. The good sources or companies were limited and the quality depended upon the source. It would be less headache for Solar Panel manufacturers and installers if they were sure about the quality of battery they use. Home solar installers were always quite unsure whether or not to invest a huge amount of money in a battery, the quality of which, they were not sure about but with Elon Musk’s name and quality behind the brand Tesla Powerwall might end up in every home, office and car.

Watch the Tesla event.

5 Comments
Kamlesh
9/5/2015 03:47:00 am

My only concern is the amount of Solar Panels if would take to fill up 7kWh.
@ Rs 1.8 Lakh for the battery pack + An additional huge amount for the panels, it again becomes unfeasible.

There are a lot of companies doing the exact same thing but their solution hasnt been implemented properly, plus it costs way much more and the batteries dont last nearly as long. The quality if the Tesla battery pack is the game changer.

Once the giga factory is operational, the prices could fall and if demand is huge, the dirty power companies / governments could be pissing in their pants.

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Johnson
9/5/2015 04:50:41 am

For 7kWh the details are mentioned in the below links:

http://sudarsun.in/blog/2013/04/1-5kwp-solar-power-plant/

http://sudarsun.in/blog/2013/01/1kwp-solar-power-plant

But to keep it simple we can say it could be 1L or 5L or 25L. Thus the cost can be Rs1,00,000, Rs 500,000 or Rs 25,00,000.

for 100,000 only basic electricity needs to run a 2BHK flat.
for 500,000 basic electricity + car charging+1 A/c
for 2500,000 use multiple airconditioners similar to normal grid power.

Thus the Tesla power bank at Rs 200,000 would be good for a person who would be investing a minimum of Rs 500,000 solar system (3L for rest of system & 2L for Tesla Powerwall. But still the quality and the life of the battery will ensure it is good investment even for a person putting up a 1L grid as he will be investing about Rs50,000 in lead acid batteries which will have to be replaced every 2 yrs. Thus it makes sense to buy Tesla Powerwall which has a 10 yr life.

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Kamlesh
9/5/2015 01:36:09 pm

Anyway Johnson, the whole point of the Powerwall is to enable people to power their homes completely sustainably. This is not a product whose purpose is to save you money, its purpose is to save the planet.

The fact that we could do away with a grid and power our homes and cars with the powerwall seems very attractive. It gives us an awesome sense of energy independence

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4/12/2020 10:58:07 am

Great article. Do you know if the power bank can be used as a sort of USB UPS to keep several things alive through a power cut – can you charge and discharge through the different ports simultaneously? Any idea what that would do to the battery pack over time? Obviously you’d need to be able to charge at a higher current than you are drawing, so it may not be possible.

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