Elon Musk just introduced the mega pack! Tesla's megapack is basically huge chunk of batteries, an upgrade to powerwall. Tesla's megapack will be made in Gigafactory 2. Tesla's megapack is a solution to replace peaker plants. Tesla's megapack aims to transform traditional industry. Before I start to explain about megapack, you have to understand what are Peaker plants and how the power grid works.
This is how the power grid works. Power plants, transmission lines, you.
Power plants there are two types. Base load mega plants, these plants run pretty slow and you cannot adjust how much energy they are creating. When demand is low, these big slow plants lose money.
When demand is high, Peaker plants which are quicker and dirtier, switch on to keep up and they are pretty wasteful. So you get hit on both sides. You get hit when load is low, and get hit with efficiency when Peaker plants switch on.
If you draw a chart out on energy comsumption through the day, it looks something like this. They call this the duck curve. Demand starts to pick up around 5pm where most people start going home and demand drops around 7am when people start leaving for work.
This is where the megapack comes in. Megapack simply is a huge chunk of batteries. These batteries store energy from base load plants when demand drops and delivers power when the base load power plant can’t keep up.
With this energy solution, you can avoid spend hundreds of millions of dollars building Peaker plants which takes years to build, plenty of money to maintain and polluting the environment. It makes so much money sense too. The proof of concept was done back in 2017, South Australia, Hornsdale. It saved $40M in the first year alone! It creates a win-win situation. The utility company spends far lesser, consumer pays far lesser and it protects the environment.
These mega packs also be used to store energy from renewables like solar and wind, stabilise the voltage and frequency of the main grid, create a microgrid away from the main grid. Mega pack now, is the best solution available and they have plenty of orders to fulfil. In fact it’s quite a lot, Tesla’s battery production cannot keep up.
Do you know there is a huge island in Hawaii, Kauaʻi powered purely by a combination of solar and batteries. 100% free and clean energy as long as the sun burns.
My videos on:
Why must Tesla Succeed - [ Ссылка ]
Tesla's plan to build a lot more batteries - It's the last part of the video as Elon hinted at this during Tesla's Q2 earnings report - [ Ссылка ]
Videos I recommend on Tesla's megapack:
Tesla Megapack: Utility-Scale Energy Storage - Hyperchange TV - [ Ссылка ]
South Australia's giant Tesla battery confounds critics - ABC News - [ Ссылка ]
Tesla Launches the Megapack - The market is open - [ Ссылка ]
