Grid level battery electricity storage coming soon

We'll have to follow this story. These things seem to take longer than planned, and end up being more expensive aswell.

 

I like it.
What is wrong with this world where projects like this are not fully supported by governments?
Damn greed. Humans (in general) dont give a hoot what happens to this earth, they'd rather make huge amounts of money than improve/protect the environment and better humanity. Just a little rant but I'm done now.

Cheers,

 

I have read extensive accounts of battery companies going to extreme lengths to protect their market share, including buying out entrepenuers like this .
Reminds me of a bloke from Meningie years ago who made a steam engine that could power his HR Holden at 80kph up hill and down dale. Apparently it was a sealed water system and only required 3 small Mallee stumps to go to Adelaide(about 160km). Mobil oil bought the patent for $6m and have it stored away in a secure basement. Afterward this bloke was never seen again-Iwonder if he got to spend the money?

 

Tony Abbot will make a law against it then

 

a short article about some home storage batteries...a bit light on details ....

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/tesla-confirms-battery-power-our-homes-will-be-announced-30-april-1497723

 

Update to the Tesla Powerwall, this could be interesting.

http://www.theverge.com/2015/5/1/8525309/tesla-energy-elon-musk-battery-announcement

 

Beat me to it, been watching this one for a few months:



$3500 USD for a 10kwh unit, how much would an average house need?


...now if I only owned a roof.

 

Here's another one, I skipped over the article and went straight to the users comments. There's some debate about the figures.

http://www.treehugger.com/clean-tec...tteries-homes-and-businesses-starting-3k.html

Joshuas comments sound ok:
"I think that's 5A @ 350 or 450V DC.
The power output is 2.0 kW continuous for one unit. 3.3 kW peak.
Which I imagine is enough power-output for just about any average home... you just wouldn't want to run all of your appliances and a hair-dryer at once."
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So if you're offgrid you can just get two units, and/or reduce the amount of power you use at night.

PS> but, before buying this i'd look at what current systems cost just to compare. You could check battery prices and see what the equivalent is etc.

in the video he said you could order one now on their website, but I couldn't see where, maybe I was at the wrong place. It will be interesting to see how people take this up, and if we more about it in mainstream media.

 

$3500 USD for a 10kwh unit, how much would an average house need?


...now if I only owned a roof. [/QUOTE]
This is amazing!!. In answer to your question about how much power is needed to run a home: -We have a 16kw standalone system and it runs 3 dwellings quite well. In the last rain we had (3/4 days of cloud), our back up gennie fired up once for about 1.5hrs (4.3 litres of diesel). However, our batteries alone cost $14,000.00 and will need replacing in 12-15 years. Our management system was $8000.00 and our inverter, $3000.00. So if this is real, we could have bought two of these and had 20kw and saved $18000.00. I'll bet energex and the like are starting to lose control of their bodily functions. They'll probably be lobbying the gummint to up the minimum charge by a big margin and even have a charge if you are not connected to the grid.

To explain a little further, it seems like this is what is referred to as a 'AC' connected system, which means that you use the power straight form you panels when the sun shines and from your batteries when the sun is not shining. If you have this connected to the grid, you would use the grid in the same way I currently use my back-up gennie; -only when there no sun and your batteries are flat. So, in my semi-educated opinion, this 10kw system is more than enough for most houses, unless you were running a pool, plus aircon, plus electric stove at night or on rainy days.

 

I have been interested in this also an in flicking through a local newspaper my eyes veered quickly towards an ad for a solar power provider who installs both grid-fed panels as well as battery-fed panels (with excess fed back to the grid for more savings if already connected to the grid). He's from the Gold Coast: http://www.superiorsolarsolutions.com.au/battery-storage-solutions.php

I am a little far off from getting on board with this hybrid solar set up but I'm certainly leaning towards what guys like these are offering.

 

Yeah Mark, that's because those 'packages' are a little on the expensive side and may scare off customers (so they promote the 'financed' payments instead).
I made a direct enquiry to the guy and he quoted $12,000 for the 6kW backup package. Need to save up for a while to get it, but I think in the long run it probably would be.

 

Yep. We currently have a 1.5kW system along with a solar hot water unit and even then they have almost covered our electricity costs in autumn and spring (but we use the A/C for heating for winter).