Diving Into Tesla’s 60+ Pages Of PUCT Filings

Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2022 18:10:05 +0000

Tesla has over 60 pages of Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT) filings that have recently been shared publicly, and we’re about to dive into them. Grab some water and a coffee and let’s go. Tesla and its team, including its US Energy Markets Policy Lead, Arushi Sharma Frank, have been working hard to help […]

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Mining Bitcoin With Tesla Solar & Powerwall

Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2022 20:00:04 +0000

Mining bitcoin is often pretty bad for the environment due to coal being the primary power source, and another key source is natural gas. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists shared that in Pennsylvania, Big Dog Energy LLC installed 30 gas-fired generators at one of its gas well pads in Beccaria Township. All of the […]

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ERCOT & Tesla: How Virtual Power Plants Can Help Texas Electricity Grid & Save Lives

Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2022 03:40:12 +0000

Tesla ERCOT VPP workshopTesla held a virtual power plant (VPP) workshop for the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) on May 31. Gail Alfar, the writer at What’s Up Tesla?, attended and shared her thoughts. Also in May, Tesla made a request for Powerwall owners in Texas to opt into the Tesla ERCOT Demonstration to show the utility exactly […]

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Tesla Employee Shares The Importance Solving The Carbon Crisis

Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2022 06:33:30 +0000

A Tesla employee recently shared the importance of solving the climate crisis in a LinkedIn post. The post was also an invitation for those interested in applying to work at Tesla. The post from Shamus Brown, Tesla’s Senior Engineering Program Manager, found its way into my feed, and I think his message — which was […]

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Tesla’s Giant Solar & Energy Facility Near Las Vegas Has 528,084 Solar Panels

Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2022 03:35:10 +0000

Arevon Townsite Solar and Storage facilityTesla’s giant solar and energy facility near Las Vegas will power 60,000 homes with its 528,084 solar panels and 90 MW/360 MWh Tesla Megapack. The new facility, Arevon Townsite Solar and Storage, is in Boulder City, Nevada, and will generate 500,000 MWh of electricity per year. In the video, Tesla announced that Arevon has completed […]

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81 Tesla Megapacks Are Helping Texas Keep The Grid Stabilized

Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2022 06:51:42 +0000

81 Tesla MegapacksTesla is helping Texas with 81 Megapacks to avoid a repeat of last year’s winter disaster. Gail Alfar gave me a call yesterday and as I was turning on my air conditioner (it was in the 70s here and really warm in my home), she told me that Austin was iced in. My first reaction […]

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Tesla Now Has 1,800 Employees In New York, Panasonic Quits Gigafactory 2 In Buffalo (The Solar One)

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2020 08:37:41 +0000

Tesla has met its goal of hiring 1,450 workers at Gigafactory 2 outside Buffalo, New York two months early. Elon Musk says he will deliver a “company talk” there in April.

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Humongous Tesla Battery Plant Approved In California Is 10× Bigger Than World’s Biggest Battery Plant

Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2020 18:45:02 +0000

Tesla has been approved to reinvent the Moss Landing power plant in California as a battery power plant. In fact, it will be approximately 10× bigger than Tesla’s Hornsdale, which was 3× bigger than any other battery storage facility at the time it was built

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Tesla’s Secret Weapon Is Fueled By The Sun

Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2020 03:22:49 +0000

Tesla’s secret weapon is something that many investors don’t even think to consider when they think of Tesla. CNN Business reminded us that investors only think about EVs when they think about Tesla. However, Tesla’s secret weapon is fueled by the same thing life on Earth is — our sun

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Tesla’s Helping Australian Bushfire Victims

Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2020 04:14:07 +0000

Wildfires in AustraliaTesla is helping Australian bushfire victims with its part in the collective efforts alongside 5B, a solar provider in Sydney, and Mike Cannon-Brooks, the founder of Atlassian. The goal is to install solar panels and batteries in towns that have lost power completely due to the devastating bushfires of 2019–

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