The billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, who is never short of bold ideas, is determined to transform the electricity market.
The executive director of automotive electric vehicle Tesla Motors expects to connect millions of batteries with solar panels on homes and businesses so that the world can be disconnected from power plants-and that can benefit. On Thursday night, before a devoted audience and party atmosphere, Musk stated how it intends to achieve.
Musk I took the stage at the design studio of Tesla, near the Los Angeles International Airport, lively by enthusiastic fans with glasses in hand, at an appropriate stage for a bold dreamer known for outlandish projects to pursue.
Colonize Mars is one of the objectives of Musk at SpaceX, a company of special ships who also heads .
Now it has set another ambitious mission. “Our goal here is to fundamentally change the way the world consumes energy,” Musk told reporters gathered in Hawthorne, Calif.
Although Tesla will build the battery called “powerwall” will be other the companies that marketed. The list of partners includes SolarCity, a firm of installing solar panels founded by cousins Musk, Lyndon and Peter Rive. Musk is the chairman and largest shareholder of SolarCity.
As with electric cars Tesla, with a starting price of $ 70,000, the batteries are probably too expensive for most consumers. The recommended price is between 3,000 and 3,500 dollars, depending on the desired capacity. The installation would apart. That could slow initial adoption, especially for a product that could be of limited use.
“I do not think that this product in its first incarnation is interesting for ordinary people,” admitted Peter Rive, chief technology SolarCity. However, Rive expected to be enough demand to increase substantially the amount of domestic batteries.
Musk is so encouraged by the initial demand he believes Tesla and other future rivals will sell 2.000 million lots batteries worldwide, around the same amount as vehicles on the streets. While that may sound like a “super crazy” objective, Musk insisted that “do it within the reach of humanity.”
There is a long way to get there. Tesla expects to begin shipments of a limited set of batteries Powewall this summer in the United States before expanding internationally next year.
The long-term goal is to reduce the world’s dependence on energy from fossil fuels and create regional networks of domestic batteries that could be controlled as if they were a power plant. That would give power companies another way to ensure that they can provide power at peak demand.
For now, the battery serves primarily as an expensive backup system during power outages for consumers and David Cunningham, an aerospace engineer in Foster City, California. Later this year installed a Tesla battery to work alongside the pair of solar panels as part of a pilot program run by the Public Utilities Commission of California, to test the performance of the batteries.
Although House Cunningham has not suffered blackouts in the six months that has had the battery is able to use household appliances like lights and cooling, plus it can be recharged by solar panels during the day.
“While solar panels are taken, I think it is logical that the two go hand in hand equipment,” Cunningham said. “I think I have an entire electrical system here at home.”
It is likely that the batteries become more useful if, as expected, most regulators and utilities allow energy prices vary during the day depending on market conditions. Thus, the computer program that controls the solar system and the battery would allow customers to use electricity generated at home, and not the energy of the red- costly when prices rise.
Many corporate customers and and they buy their energy, and Tesla announced battery systems designed for them and lots of larger batteries that can be used to manage your network. Analysts say these corporate markets and utilities probably be more promising for Tesla in the years to domestic customers.
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Fahey reported from New York and Houston. AP reporter Justin Pritchard contributed to this report from Hawthorne, Calif.
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