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Bring it to Australia. Solar is growing at a massive rate, gas is expensive, electricity is expensive, and anyone with solar will have the ability and be prepar
by boyter 8y ago
Bring it to Australia. Solar is growing at a massive rate, gas is expensive, electricity is expensive, and anyone with solar will have the ability and be prepared to spend to get a decent battery.
Assuming this does hit the magical $3000 for 7 kWh of storage installed price point I can see it being installed all over. At that point its not a 10+ year proposition to get your money back but more like 5. Heck I would like to have one as my solar system currently exports 2/3's of the power it produces and I would love to have a battery system.
- prostoalex 8y agoI was doing a touristy Hunter Valley Wine Country tour a few months back, and the bus driver mentioned how Tesla Powerwall and solar panels were taking over in that area, due to the relative remoteness of the area and feebleness of the grid.
- reitzensteinm 8y agoRight now they're basically a hack to achieve net metering, which means that the grid maintenance and capital costs of the grid's power production will fall disproportionately on users not able to afford the systems. There'll eventually be a correction as storage ramps up (and this makes the payback calculations unreliable). Either connection fees will make up a significantly higher percentage of a bill, or owners of the systems will need to pay for power like commercial properties do with dynamic pricing.
- coding123 8y agoI think he's talking about OFF grid.