- Next up, I wanna talk about this new,
this story came out last week,
and I am actually just really stoked on this.
This, to me, is actually one
of the most interesting things about Tesla,
is that they are not at all just a car company,
and the whole vision is to switch the world over
to sustainable forms of energy.
Transportation is a big part of that
but the core of the transportation, the sustainable version
that Tesla makes, are these batteries.
Now because the core of that is batteries,
they have so many more applications.
Obviously we have home power walls and everything like that.
Here we have some more news coming out
and this is the California Public Utilities Commission
on Thursday, approved four energy storage projects
for PG&E to replace retiring gas generators,
including two batteries that would be the largest
in the world.
The CPUC granted approval for a total of 567 megawatts
which is a 2,270 megawatt hours of storage,
that's over two gigawatt hours of storage,
including a 300 megawatt,
which is a 1,200 megawatt hour project from Vistra Energy
and a 182.5 megawatt,
which comes out to 730 megawatt hour project
from Tesla, that the utility would own.
So PG&E will actually own that part of the system.
Those batteries, once completed,
would be the two largest in service.
The Vistra one would be 1,200 megawatt hours,
and the Tesla one would be 730.
That is a big difference, and in fact,
if you wanna just compare that,
I did a video a while ago about Puerto Rico
when they kind of had the hurricanes
really mess everything up there,
and in it, I did some analysis on kind of like
what it would take to rebuild it
with a 100% solar and batteries,
which doesn't actually make sense.
You can see here, you know, there's wind
and all kinds of other stuff you can use.
But I just did some really basic analysis on it
and I'll put a link to this in the description.
You can go check it out.
So the megawatt hours, these are the energy storage projects
from Tesla currently.
This Puerto Rico one was the hypothetical,
this one doesn't exist but it was just
to kind of to give you scale.
So the Ta'u American Samoa, which is an island,
has a six megawatt hour system,
which I think gives it 100%.
Kauai, which is an island in Hawaii
has a 52 megawatt hour system, which is massive
and really helped them switch off of the diesels.
The one in South Australia,
is it South Australia or Southern Australia?
Apologies to anyone in Australia, I always get that wrong.
That one is 129 megawatt hours
which I believe is currently
the largest lithium ion one in the world.
And then you have these two,
which would be the one from Tesla being 730 megawatt hours
and then the one from Vistra
being 1.2 gigawatt hours, essentially.
So a massive improvement, a huge, like the whole project
being over two gigawatts is a ginormous step forward here.
And with that, would really significantly help California
reach its goals of renewable and switching
to renewable energy in the very soon future here.
Curious what you guys think about this.
I love these kind of things.
I actually wanna go tour some.
I've been trying to get in, there's one, a giant solar plant
out there in the desert, outside of Los Angeles.
If you guys know anyone there, I would love
to have a look at this because while the cars are sexy,
and cool, and fun and you know, all the good stuff,
I think that in the grander scale,
these are the things that really,
at least get me excited about what I do,
which is to try to bring people together
and get them excited about these things.
A little bit of a Russian doll there for you.
Anyways, let me know what you guys think about that
and yeah, if anyone has a contact over at any
of those giant solar farms, let me know.
I'd love to come check it out.
I think it would be a blast just to see it in person
and then, you know, share that story
with all you guys here on the channel,
so talk to you then, I guess, alright!