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| Fri, 10th Apr 2020 14:08:00 |
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Tesla's Virtual Power Plant Is Already a Success |
Tesla's extreme Australian makeover continues with a new "virtual power plant," part of the continent's overall program to encourage these collections of renewable resources. Tesla is just the first to make and report on a virtual power plant for the program.
Like the large energy storage facility Tesla operates in South Australia, the goal of the virtual power plant is to both collect energy and store it to be fed back into the grid. The pilot virtual plant is distributed across the rooftops of 1,000 low-income homes in South Australia, and Tesla says its goal is to eventually have 50,000 solar rooftops there. That number might sound small, but South Australia only has about 1.6 million residents.
Each home has photovoltaic panels on the roof and a Tesla Powerwall system—a home solution that stores solar power from panels and releases it as needed—to store the energy. The Powerwalls are then networked to secure and share collected solar energy. Like distributed computing and cloud storage, the network is what makes a collection of individual pieces into, in this case, a "power plant."
By hosting panels that feed into the virtual plant, low-income South Australians are seeing up to 20 percent drops in their energy bills, according to a new report from the Australia Energy Market Operator.
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