Elon Musk
Elon Musk
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"Tesla files to become an electricity provider in Texas'
"Tesla filed an application with the Texas Public Utility Commission to sell electricity in the state.
The application follows the start of a big battery build out by Tesla in Angleton, Texas (near Houston), where it aims to connect a 100 megawatt energy storage system to the grid.
A cold snap seized Texas in February this year, stranding millions of residents without power or water for days on end. The Texas grid is isolated from the rest of the U.S., so transmission of power from other states was not available to relieve those stuck in the cold."
- Apparently solar panels work better in the cold. Saw this recently -Nairn
- https://houseofswitz…Nairn
- Not about solar panels, but batteries. Texas is very ripe for the taking with their..."weird" gridgrafician
- Where does the energy to charge those batteries come from? And what else does Elon's network of companies provide?Nairn
- Spaceships, cars, robots. Not solar panels.grafician
- Tesla offers batteries, the energy can come even from hamsters running on wheelsgrafician
- erm? from 5 fucking years ago, graf
https://www.tesla.co…Nairn - I don't know why i said 'network of companies' prior. that was confusing. I just meant 'what else does he do?'.Nairn
- Boca Chica's going to need a shitload of electrciity for when they start making methane, presumably on-site.Nairn
- What better way to accomplish that by long-term building a state-level energy company so that you can fulfill your own requirement.. and presumablyNairn
- lol Nairn, bro just because they have that on paper doesn't mean they actually delivergrafician
- ..get whatever state/federal level grants/support that is granted to energy companies.Nairn
- Here, they can't even compete locally https://www.greencar…grafician
- Tesla is one of the two largest installers of domestic solar panels in America.Nairn
- Solarcity was bought not developed by Elongrafician
- So?Nairn
- That article is from 2019Nairn
- Who started Solar City then?Nairn
- Again this is about batteries, energy storage and grid management, as Texas lacks in all those areas. Like a I said, Texas is very ripe for the takinggrafician
- Anyway, if this experiment works = LONG on Teslagrafician
- You're not thinking like Elon is here.Nairn
- Witness every play he's ever made.Nairn
- what's the over under his only client for his new power utility is the Tesla Factory he's building out there?jonny_quest_lives
- i.e.- can't risk losing production for another texas cold spell/ this dude doesn't want more trublesome retail clients andjonny_quest_lives
- the headaches associated with providing normal people electricity. just doing the regulatory paperwork to provide his car factory a battery backupjonny_quest_lives
- i don't see him being able to scale for retail consumer demand on this one... Backup batteries for his factory... move along.jonny_quest_lives
- https://www.usatoday…jonny_quest_lives