With the announcement that electric car maker, Tesla Motors, was set to swallow up SolarCity, it became obvious that Tesla was looking to do more than make cheap, environmentally friendly cars. Now it wants to help power cities during peak times, by building giant battery facilities.
The first city that Tesla will trial its new power storage facility is Los Angeles. Following on from the Aliso Canyon methane leak in 2015, the city is lacking in power which concerns some that during winter there may be rolling blackouts. To try and stop that happening, Tesla will be adding a large number of high-capacity power packs to a power substation to ease the pressure off at peak times.
The Southern California Edison Mira Loma substation, will be equipped with 20MW/80MWh Powerpacks ? enough to provide up to 2,500 households with power for a day if needed. While that might not seem like a lot in a city with a population near four million, this energy storage system is somewhat of a trial, but also one that could be brought online by the end of 2016.
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