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| Tue, 16th Jun 2020 17:30:00 |
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Tesla Powerwall Saves The Day In SCE Power Outage |
Our local utility notified us that a power outage with an 8-hour outage window spanning from 9am to 5pm was scheduled for June 3rd. For most people, in a non-pandemic world, that would not be a problem. People are normally at work during the day, so the outage passes by unnoticed.
We are not most people. In the pre-coronavirus world, that honestly still feels a bit like a fiction right now. I work from home, writing articles, doing consulting work, and other random bits of helpfulness. The kids normally go to school for most of the day, and my partner goes to work, but that world is no more. I still work from home, but the landscape we live in has changed completely.
Now, we have two kids thrown into the mix attempting to acquire an education from their Chromebooks and iPads. In just a few short days, they were more fluent than I in Zoom and Google Docs. We live, eat, breathe, sleep, and recreate in and around the house. We learn, work, and play from home nearly 24/7. These changes have made our home and the electricity that powers it essential for our day-to-day functions.
Thankfully, Tesla installed 2 Powerwalls in our garage along with a Tesla Solarglass system. These two systems work together to effectively create a minigrid for our home. In normal operations, the systems operate in tandem with the electric grid, pushing power to the Powerwalls until they are full, with any excess spilling over onto the grid. When the grid goes down, the dynamic shifts.
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