To meet the ever-increasing need for sustainable energy, Tesla has introduced a new energy storage system called Megapack that is said to be capable of enabling the world’s largest energy projects.
Megapack was created with the purpose of serving as an alternative to natural gas peaker power plants. Whenever the utility grid is unable to provide energy during peak demand, peaker power plants are used at a cost of millions per day and are described as being “some of the least efficient and dirtiest plants on the grid”.
By using a Megapack, peak loads are supported with the stored solar and wind energy.
Pre-assembled and pre-tested, every Megapack is delivered ready for installation without the need for on-site assembly. Requiring less than 40% space and 10x fewer parts than other energy storage systems currently available, a 1 GWh Megapack power plant on a three-acre footprint can technically be built in less than three months.
With each Megapack capable of up to 3 megawatt-hours (MWh) of storage and 1.5 MW of inverter capacity, Tesla states that a 1 Gigawatt hour (GWh) project will be able to power every home in San Francisco for 6 hours.
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