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Well, yeah, probably. You'll also make a lot of people unhappy $2/kWh is very expensive. I guess by paying the powerwall users you can limit how much you spend
by raverbashing 4y ago
Well, yeah, probably. You'll also make a lot of people unhappy
$2/kWh is very expensive. I guess by paying the powerwall users you can limit how much you spend with them. Not sure with how much local granularity can you turn them on, but it definitely helps
- dskloet 4y agoHow can they pay powerwall users $2 if they're not actually charging $2?
- sebzim4500 4y agoPresumably most of the time they are charging end users more than they are paying energy providers.
- nisegami 4y agoBy amortizing that across off-peak pricing?
- TimMeade 4y agoBy not having to build more power plants or not putting the battery equivalent of all the power walls. Also, I imagine this is to get the power wall users 'hooked'. Then over next few years that $2 will turn into 20 cents.
- dskloet 4y agoAnd hope that won't realize they're destroying their battery without enough compensation?
- vineyardmike 4y agoThis isn’t actually unique to powerwall users - this is a program for energy providers to supply emergency power. There’s a minimum amount of power needed to be eligible and a powerwall is too small. Tesla realized that they have the unique ability to manage a fleet of small batteries to act as a single large one to qualify. Will the price go down in the future? Maybe. Is this a gimmick to get people hooked? Probably not, assuming Tesla isn’t paying end users more than they make to join in.
- raverbashing 4y agoYou're buying the bare minimum to stabilize the grid and you're buying it "delivered" already