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Re: Batteries
By: AGelbert Date: February 26, 2016, 9:03 pm
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[center]Enphase Energy Announces New Residential Storage Product
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February 25th, 2016 by Kyle Field
SNIPPET:
Enphase Energy has long been a key provider of microinverter and
wiring solutions for residential solar photovoltaic (PV)
installations and has built on that success with another
important component of a holistic energy solution — storage.
Before we dive into the company’s recently updated product,
let’s talk a bit about the Enphase approach to “going green” at
home and for the entire grid. That all starts with the Enphase
Home Energy Solution (video).
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Full story:
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Re: Batteries
By: AGelbert Date: April 20, 2016, 8:33 pm
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[center]How to make a lithium battery for an electric bicycle
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Re: Batteries
By: AGelbert Date: May 3, 2016, 7:03 pm
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[center]Researchers create incredible, everlasting battery
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Megan Treacy (@mtreacy)
Technology / Gadgets
May 2, 2016
SNIPPET:
A typical lithium-ion battery starts to deteriorate after a few
thousand charge cycles because lithium deposits build up on the
electrodes and cause the battery to lose the ability to hold a
charge. For this new battery, the researchers used nanowires,
which are highly conductive and have a large surface area,
making them great at holding charge as electrodes.
Nanowire are very fragile though and the abuse of
charge/discharge cycles breaks them down quickly. To prevent
that, the researchers coated a gold nanowire in a manganese
dioxide shell and encased the assembly in a Plexiglas-like gel
electrolyte.
The gel coating was just an experiment, an afterthought, but
when they tested it they found that the device was able to go
through 200,000 cycles without any loss of capacity or any
damage to the nanowire. :o
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[quote]“That was crazy,” said Reginald Penner, chair of UCI’s
chemistry department and researcher on the project, “because
these things typically die in dramatic fashion after 5,000 or
6,000 or 7,000 cycles at most.”[/quote]
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The coated electrode was able to hold its shape better than one
without a coating and the researchers think that the think the
gel plasticizes the metal oxide in the battery giving it
flexibility and preventing any fractures.
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Agelbert NOTE: I am CERTAIN the fossil fuel industry will do
whatever it can to suppress this massive Renewable energy
breakthrough because this technology means ZERO storage
limitations for EVs powered from Renewable Energy harvesting
technologies like wind and solar AND ZERO NEED for gasoline
powered vehicles.
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Re: Batteries
By: AGelbert Date: May 3, 2016, 9:15 pm
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[quote author=Golden Oxen link=topic=559.msg102814#msg102814
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[quote][size=12pt]coated [size=14pt]a gold nanowire
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Sounds interesting AG. ;)
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I was just about to PM you with a copy of this post. I figured
this would be of interest to you.
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It is true that nano-wires do not require a lot of metal. So,
the battery price should compete favorably with lithium ion,
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This technology, if not suppressed by the fossil fuel fascists
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will move
GOLD up so high in DEMAND in the industrial sector (where the
money manipulators CANNOT GAME the price) that the intrinsic
value of that precious metal will be BOOSTED mightily by it's
industrial metal status, above and beyond electrical contacts
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As you know, ALL industrial metals CAN be recycled indefinitely
without new mining efforts. So, the use of gold nanowires to
help provide battery storage for electric powered houses, cars
,ships, trains, trucks and aircraft to eliminate the need for
ALL internal combustion powered vehicles permanently would
certainly be sustainable as well as being cost effective.
Gold mining, hopefuly, will be done in a more sustainable way to
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The fossil fuelers will sniff and say, "This Quantum jump in
battery storage technology is not ready for prime time".
Yes it is! Battery technology like this can be scaled up in a
couple of years BECAUSE the battery manufacturing infrastructure
has already been pioneered with the lithium ion factories all
over the world. The doped nano-wires, once any bugs in the
assembly process are ironed out, can change our transportation
picture in less than a decade!
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This is BIG! This is HUGE! And, of course, people like you with
a nice gold stash are going to do quite well.
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Re: Batteries
By: AGelbert Date: May 19, 2016, 8:03 pm
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Storing The Sun’s Energy Just Got A Whole Lot Cheaper [img
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by Joe Romm May 18, 2016 10:50 am
CREDIT: S&C Electric Company
Part of a game-changing 4.2 MW solar + storage system in
Minster, Ohio. (picture at article link)
With prices dropping rapidly for both renewables and battery
storage, the economics of decarbonizing the grid are changing
faster than most policymakers, journalists, and others realize.
So, as part of my ongoing series, “Almost Everything You Know
About Climate Change Solutions Is Outdated,” I will highlight
individual case studies of this real-time revolution.
My Monday post discussed the Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission’s (FERC) report that in the first quarter, the U.S.
grid added 18 megawatts of new natural gas generating capacity,
but 1,291 MW of new renewables. But one of FERC’s “Electric
Generation Highlights” for March deserves special attention as a
leading indicator of the revolutionary new economics of solar
plus storage:
[quote]Half Moon Ventures LLC’s 4.2 MW Minster Solar Project in
Auglaise County, OH is online. This project includes an energy
storage capacity.[/quote]
The Minster “solar + storage system is the largest U.S. facility
of its kind connected through a municipal utility,” according to
S&C Electric Company, which built and integrated the storage
system. It combines a 4.3-MW photovoltaic systems and a
7-MW/3-MWh storage management system that provides power
conversion with lithium ion batteries.
Lithium Ion storage The lithium-ion-based storage system used in
Minster. (picture at article link)
CREDIT: S&C Electric Company
How does a storage system based on lithium-ion batteries make
economic sense? The answer is: in a few different ways, with a
system called “revenue stacking.” It’s worth taking a slightly
wonky look at how such a system can stack or combine multiple
revenue sources, since this is a defining feature of the
game-changing new economics of solar energy plus storage.
To get the scoop on the system, I spoke to S&C’s Director of
Grid Solutions, Troy Miller, who described this as “one of the
first, if not the first” energy storage system to allow so many
different revenues sources. The company has also posted online
the full case study.
[center]Capturing the Multi-Faceted Value of Energy Storage
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First, this system lets Half Moon Venture sell into PJM’s market
for frequency regulation. PJM is the regional transmission
organization that coordinates wholesale electricity movement and
maintains grid reliability for over 60 million customers in 13
Eastern and Midwestern states and the District of Columbia.
Frequency regulation is “the injection and withdrawal of power
on a second-by-second basis to maintain grid frequency at 60
Hz.”
To make this happen, “the battery system was sized for frequent
charging and discharging cycles.” The control platform for the
system was designed “to interface with PJM market interfacing
software to enable the system to follow a signal from PJM.” The
system analyzes both grid conditions and market pricing to
determine how to optimize revenues by either dispatching to or
absorbing electricity from the grid.
Second, the Village of Minster had a major power quality problem
— “occasional low power factor,” which wastes energy and
requires expensive equipment to fix. Minster had been planning
to install $350,000 worth of capacitor banks dedicated to
dealing with this issue. But S&C was able to design the storage
system to “provide power-factor correction concurrent with
frequency regulation services.” That saved Minster $350,000.
Third, the system will allow Minster to reduce peak mid-day
demand charges. Utilities typically charge customers a fee whose
size depends on the maximum power consumed during a day since,
they argue, they have to maintain enough capacity to deal with
the very biggest peak demand they might see — typically during a
hot summer day.
For a large electricity user like Minster, “PJM looks at the
five highest two-hour peak load periods across its entire
territory” at the end of a given year. PJM then assesses the
user a “Peak-Load Contribution” charge based on how big the peak
is. In Minster’s case, it is some 11 megawatts. To save Minster
money, S&C designed their energy storage system software “to
predict when these peaks would occur” and, when they do, to
“switch from providing frequency-regulation services to demand
response services.” The system should be able to shave Minster’s
peak demand some 2 MW.
[quote]
The bottom line, according to Miller, is “Revenue stacking is
one of the quickest ways to create a strong return on investment
for energy storage systems.” He expects to see a lot more
projects like these in the future.[/quote]
I asked him how much the sharp drop in battery prices had opened
the door to such projects. Miller explained that battery prices
had come down by a factor of three in the last few years, which
greatly “expands available opportunities that are currently in
the money.” Lots of stuff that didn’t make economic sense now
does. ;D
We already know there are a number of ways to greatly increase
the penetration of renewable energy using existing hardware and
software. What we are now witnessing is the dawn of a revolution
that will enable lithium-ion batteries to play a larger and
larger role in that increased penetration.
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The only questions that remain now are
1) will we embrace the kind of aggressive deployment programs
needed to avoid catastrophic global warming ???, and
2) will we nurture a domestic market that will maintain U.S.
leadership in key job-creating low carbon technologies ???, or
will we outsource more jobs to China and Europe. :(
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Re: Batteries
By: AGelbert Date: July 7, 2016, 9:36 pm
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A 5-megawatt storage battery has started regular operations in
Brandenburg, after a 1-year test run was completed successfully,
PV magazine reports.
The battery is among the biggest of its kind in Europe and has
the prequalification as a network stabilising facility.
The facility could substitute the balancing power provided by a
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Read the article in German (behind paywall) here
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Re: Batteries
By: AGelbert Date: September 16, 2016, 1:49 pm
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[center]Tesla Wins Massive Contract to Help Power the California
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It's the latest response to a fossil-fuel disaster.
by Tom Randall
September 15, 2016 — 2:21 PM EDT
Tesla just won a bid to supply grid-scale power in Southern
California to help prevent electricity shortages following the
biggest natural gas leak in U.S. history. The Powerpacks, worth
tens of millions of dollars, will be operational in record
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Tesla Motors Inc. will supply 20 megawatts (80 megawatt-hours)
of energy storage to Southern California Edison as part of a
wider effort to prevent blackouts by replacing fossil-fuel
electricity generation with lithium-ion batteries. Tesla's
contribution is enough to power about 2,500 homes for a full
day, the company said in a blog post on Thursday. But the real
significance of the deal is the speed with which lithium-ion
battery packs are being deployed.
"The storage is being procured in a record time frame," months
instead of years, said Yayoi Sekine, a battery analyst at
Bloomberg New Energy Finance. "It highlights the maturity of
advanced technologies like energy storage to be contracted as a
reliable resource in an emergency situation."
Here's a chart (at article link) showing the acceleration of
energy-storage deployment as batteries gain popularity.
The deal fits into Tesla Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk's
long-term vision of transforming Tesla from an an electric car
company to a clean-energy company. That's the same motivation
behind his pending deal to acquire SolarCity Corp., the rooftop
solar company founded by his cousins, of which he is also
chairman and the largest shareholder.
In total megawatt hours, the Tesla batteries will make up the
biggest lithium-ion battery project in the world, though it will
soon be surpassed by others under contract, according to data
compiled by Bloomberg New Energy Finance.1increase click area A
Tesla spokeswoman declined to comment on the value of the 20
megawatt deal. According to Tesla's website, a 2-megawatt Tesla
battery system costs about $2.9 million, and any contracts
greater than 2.5 megawatts must be negotiated directly with the
company.
Last fall's natural gas leak at Aliso Canyon, near the Los
Angeles neighborhood of Porter Ranch, released thousands of tons
of methane before it was sealed in February. In its wake, SCE
and other utilities are pursuing energy storage deals. To
alleviate the risk of blackouts, regulators ordered the
installation of systems to store electricity when demand is low
and deploy it when usage spikes, especially during the winter
heating season.
Although Sempra Energy plugged its massive gas leak in February,
use of its Aliso Canyon complex, California’s biggest gas
storage field, remains restricted. Grid-storage projects are now
being fast-tracked and built in less than four months, compared
to an average of three and a half years in previous
procurements, according to data compiled by Bloomberg New Energy
Finance.
In August, California regulators approved two contracts for AES
Corp. to build 37 megawatts of grid-scale energy storage systems
to address anticipated power shortfalls stemming from the Aliso
Canyon leak. Canadian energy company AltaGas Ltd. also won a 20
megawatt (80 megawatt-hour) contract with Southern California
Edison to be completed this year.
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"This isn’t a Tesla-only story," Sekine said. "This is a broader
energy win."
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Re: Batteries
By: AGelbert Date: October 4, 2016, 5:07 pm
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[center]Chicago aquarium’s battery will have broader impact on
the grid
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Written By
David J. Unger
10/03/2016
Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium is known for its work to exhibit and
conserve the complexity of Earth’s aquatic ecosystems. But in
the coming weeks, the civic institution will find itself an
extension of another complex – albeit very manmade – system: the
21st-Century electric grid.
In June, Shedd installed a 60,000-pound, $2 million battery as
part of the aquarium’s plan to cut energy consumption in half by
2020. Like all energy-storage systems, Shedd’s battery will
provide valuable backup power and help meet peak demand for the
aquarium.
But the 1 megawatt, lithium-ion system will also play a broader
role in the way electricity supply and demand is balanced across
the region. Once its battery comes online, Shedd will be able to
sell stored power into electricity markets run by PJM
Interconnection, the regional transmission organization that
manages electricity production and flow across 13 states and the
District of Columbia.
The battery was funded by a grant from the Illinois Department
of Commerce & Economic Opportunity and installed by Schneider
Electric. Bob Wengel, vice president of facilities at Shedd,
says the battery should be ready for operation by the end of
October.
At that point, Shedd will essentially straddle the divide
between power consumer and power producer, a divide that has
long defined the existing power grid.
“If you go back 30 years, the grid was a one-way street,” Wengel
told Midwest Energy News during a recent visit to tour the
aquarium’s energy system on a blustery, wet day. The rise of
wind and solar power help reduce the strain on natural
resources, but they also make traffic on the grid more
complicated.
Grid operators like PJM have to make sure power flows are
consistent and stable despite the rise in variable energy
sources like wind and sun. Typically, that spare capacity is
ensured by keeping fossil fuel plants running in case of a
sudden change in supply or demand.
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Batteries, like the one being installed at Shedd, offer a
cleaner alternative for managing the grid.
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“If you had enough batteries out doing this … you could shut
down those plants,” Wengel said. “Now think of the natural
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Of course, Shedd is not the first to embrace the title of
“prosumer,” as producer-consumers are sometimes called in the
energy industry. Nor will it be the last. Most households with
rooftop solar are themselves extensions of the grid, both
producing power and demanding it. Analysts expect the grid of
tomorrow to consist largely of these kinds of distributed
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But for Shedd – home to 32,000 aquatic animals – the impetus for
helping to usher in a smarter, more decentralized grid hits
particularly close to home.
[quote][center]“If we could save the CO2 emissions from power
plants, and we can save the water resources, [i]we’re starting
to protect the habitat that our animals live in,” Wengel said.
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In 2013, Shedd partnered with the City of Chicago, the Illinois
Science and Technology Coalition and other groups to put
together a Master Energy Roadmap that would guide the aquarium
toward reducing its energy use by nearly 10 million
kilowatt-hours (kWh) per year. The average Illinois household
consumes about 8,940 kWh per year, according to the U.S. Energy
Information Administration. That means Shedd would save enough
energy each year to power around 1,100 Illinois households.
“The collaboration is an exceptional example of how
organizations across public and private sectors can work
together to find innovative ways to make our civic institutions
use energy smarter, cleaner and more efficiently,” Chicago Mayor
Rahm Emanuel said in a press release at the time.
Since then, Shedd has installed 913 solar panels with a capacity
of 265 kilowatts on the roof of its Abbott Oceanarium and some
1,000 efficient LED lights throughout its facility on Chicago’s
lakefront. The battery aims to complement the existing energy
system by offering backup power for critical systems and an
additional source of revenue in the form of selling power back
onto the grid. Later on, it may be used for grid-scale demand
response or to help meet the aquarium’s peak demand locally,
Wengel said.
The battery and solar systems are relatively small in comparison
to the aquarium’s overall energy use. The solar panels generate
between 300,000 to 400,000 kWh a year. That’s a drop in the
bucket compared to the 1.2 million to 1.6 million kWh Shedd
consumes in just an average month.
But the southwest facing panels make up for limited capacity
with good timing. By catching the late-afternoon sun, the panels
are able to provide an extra boost when it is needed most –
between 3 p.m. and 6 p.m. when energy demand is highest.
Education mission
Behind the scenes at Shedd, in a small windowless room out of
sight from the stingrays, penguins, turtles and other creatures,
is the brain behind the aquarium’s advanced energy system. Seven
computer monitors display real-time data about the building’s
overall energy consumption, the status of various pumps, water
heaters and other equipment, local weather conditions and the
flow of power from the rooftop solar panels.
One screen displays a graph representing the target energy
consumption levels throughout the day. The goal for the operator
is to try to adjust various equipment to keep overall energy
consumption at or below the target.
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It’s an elaborate setup for an institution whose primary focus
is water, not energy. But the two are deeply linked, as power
plants require water for cooling and large amounts of energy are
required to pump, treat and heat water for consumers.
In its pursuit of sustainability, it would have been easier for
Shedd to purchase renewable energy credits that offset
carbon-heavy generation from fossil fuel plants. But instead the
institution spent years researching, planning, partnering and
ultimately building its own unique energy system.
For Wengel, doing the legwork, the “soul searching” and the
hosting of a physical system onsite is core to Shedd’s
educational mission.
“We’re going to educate people about the battery,” Wengel said
of the system. “We’re also going to relate it in a way that
[says], ‘Someday you’re going to have a battery in your house.’”
Independent reporting on Illinois smart grid issues is made
possible by a grant from the Illinois Science & Energy
Innovation Foundation.
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Re: Batteries
By: AGelbert Date: January 31, 2017, 5:21 pm
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[center]Tesla Unveils World's Largest Battery Storage Plant to
Reduce Reliance on Fossil Fuels
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SNIPPET:
In an effort to reduce the reliance on fossil fuels, Tesla and
Southern California Edison have unveiled a massive battery
storage facility at the utility's Mira Loma substation in
Ontario, California.
The project—which is being described as the largest lithium-ion
battery storage project in the world—consists of 396 stacks of
Tesla Powerpack units spread across 1.5 acres. The batteries can
store up to 80 megawatt hours, or enough energy to power 15,000
homes for four hours.
"This project is part of our vision at Southern California
Edison to take advantage of the wind and the sun, and operate a
flexible grid that delivers clean energy to power our homes, our
businesses and our vehicles," Kevin Payne, CEO of Southern
California Edison, said at a ribbon-cutting event Monday.
"Standing here today among these Tesla Powerpacks is a great
reminder of how fast technology is changing the electric power
industry and the opportunities that will come with it."
While the project officially switched online on Monday it began
operating in December.
"We are very excited to bring this site online," said Tesla's
chief technical officer JB Straubel. "Storage is quite a new
thing … and this is a different breed of battery. This is the
tip of the iceberg of how much storage we'll see on the grid."
The batteries charge up when there is more renewable energy than
demand, ultimately allowing customers to use clean energy during
peak hours.
As the New York Times explained, California has a need for
batteries to store surplus renewable energy:
"California is on track to have an overabundance of energy
during the day, when its many solar panels are producing energy,
but that supply drops sharply as the sun sets, precisely when
demand rises, with residents heading home to use appliances and,
increasingly, to charge cars.
"The state's aging nuclear plants have been closed or are being
phased out, putting even more pressure on utilities to find
other ways to feed the grid. Storage is a natural solution,
utility executives say, helping to smooth variations in the
power flow from rooftop customers and when solar falls off and
conventional plants have not yet filled the gap."
Tesla CEO Elon Musk was not at the ribbon-cutting ceremony but
he retweeted a company tweet in support of the project. In the
clip below, Tesla touts that its new facility, [b]which only
took 94 days to install, reduces the reliance on gas peaker
plants, prevents electricity shortages, provides secure energy
and reduces greenhouse gases:
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Re: Batteries
By: AGelbert Date: February 24, 2017, 12:41 pm
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February 24, 2017
[center]3 More Gigafactories Coming Soon to 'Change the Way the
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Lorraine Chow
At the grand opening of Tesla's enormous Gigafactory in July,
CEO Elon Musk said he wants to build Gigafactories on several
continents. He told BBC he wanted a factory "in Europe, in
India, in China ... ultimately, wherever there is a huge amount
of demand for the end product."
Well, it looks like Musk's factory-building plans are well
underway.
The company said in its fourth-quarter investor letter on
Wednesday that it is considering building up to five
Gigafactories. :o ;D
The letter states:
"Installation of Model 3 manufacturing equipment is underway in
Fremont and at Gigafactory 1, where in January, we began
production of battery cells for energy storage products, which
have the same form-factor as the cells that will be used in
Model 3. Later this year, we expect to finalize locations for
Gigafactories 3, 4 and possibly 5 (Gigafactory 2 is the Tesla
solar plant in New York)."
Tesla officially flicked on Gigafactory 1's switch in January.
The factory produces lithium-ion battery cells for Tesla's suite
of battery storage products, the Powerwall 2 and Powerpack 2, as
well as the company's mass-market electric car, the Model 3.
Gigafactory 1 is currently being built in phases so that the
company and its partners can manufacture products while the
building continues to expand. Construction is expected for
completion by 2018, at which point the plant could claim the
title of world's largest building by footprint.
The facility will also be astoundingly clean and energy
efficient, as it will be powered 100 percent by renewables such
as solar, wind, geothermal and will feature energy-storage
technology.
The company also plans for the building to achieve net zero
energy. Tesla co-founder and chief technical officer JB Straubel
once explained why Tesla wanted Gigafactory operations to be
completely carbon neutral:
"The Gigafactory is maybe the best example we can talk about
with this. You know, from the get-go, from the first concept of
this factory, we wanted to make it a net-zero facility. So, you
know, the most visible thing we are doing is covering the entire
site with solar power. The whole roof of the Gigafactory was
designed from the beginning with solar in mind. We kept all of
the mechanical equipment off the roof. We didn't put extra,
sorta, penetrations through the roof that we didn't need to and
it's a very, very clean surface that we can completely cover in
solar. But that's not enough solar, though. So we have also gone
to the surrounding hillsides that we can't use for other
functions and we're adding solar to those."
According to Straubel, the Gigafactory isn't even hooked up to
any natural gas pipelines:
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[quote]"The other interesting thing is we wanted to manage the
emissions from the Gigafactory. Solar power can do some of that,
but we took kind of a radical move in the beginning and said we
are not going to burn any fossil fuels in the factory. You know,
zero emissions. We are going to build a zero-emissions
factory—just like the car. So, instead of kind of fighting this
battle in hindsight, we just said we are not even going to have
a natural gas pipeline coming to the factory, so we didn't even
build it. And it kind of forced the issue. When you don't have
natural gas, you know, none of the engineers can say, 'Oh, but
it will be more efficient, let me use just a little bit.' Sorry,
we don't even have it."[/quote]
In December, Tesla and Panasonic launched operations at its
Buffalo, New York plant, now dubbed Gigafactory 2. The factory
manufactures high-efficiency photovoltaic cells and modules for
solar panels and solar glass tiles for Tesla's highly
anticipated solar roof.
Tesla's factories are all part of the company's mission to
accelerate the world's transition to sustainable energy.
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In last year's climate change documentary Before The Flood, Musk
takes Leonardo DiCaprio on a tour of Tesla's massive Gigafactory
in Nevada. During their chat, the Tesla CEO tells the actor and
famed environmentalist that it would only take 100 Gigafactories
to transition "the whole world" to sustainable energy.
With at least five Gigafactories in the books, looks like Musk's
plans are slowly becoming reality. For what it's worth, even
DiCaprio said building one-hundred Gigafactories "sounds
manageable."
Lorraine Chow is a reporter for EcoWatch.
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Agelbert NOTE: Fossil Fuel Industry reaction to all the above:
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Expect the Fossil Fuel Industry TOOLS from Trump (Tillerson,
Pruitt et al) to publish "concerns" (for our own good OF COURSE
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/>over the "potential for the dangerous battery pollution" ;)
from the Gigafactories to cause "harm to human health and the
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