This US utility wants to give all of its customers battery storage by 2030

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• deegeese@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Wants to get customers to lease batteries. Barf.

  If they’re anything like my local utility monopoly, they’re charge you for electrons going both ways.

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  • mosiacmango@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Its not super bad. 55/month per powerwall. With them running around 10-15k installed, you get roughly 20yrs out of the battery pack before you could have “bought” it for the same price. That likely lines up to effectivly 2x end of life, with most of these packs lasting 10yrs or so. So its really a deal at $110/month.

    Of course, it carries some issues wheb selling the home like leases solar. Lease to own would have been a better system, but apparently people are happy to sign up without it.

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• db2@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  With very very loose definition for the word “give”.

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• SinningStromgald@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  “Tesla” and “lease” and I was completely dejected.

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• Grass@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I saw Tesla in the thumbnail and my first thought was “bullshit”

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• lettruthout@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Hey Southern California Edison, are you seeing this? (Oh wait, they’re budy collaborating with the Public Utilities Commission to do away with anything but their big solar installations.)

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  • sadreality@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Why would a regulated infra company would gelo its customers achieve energy security

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    • ripcord@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      regulated

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• Heresy_generator@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Vermont regulators recently agreed to GMP’s request to lift the enrollment cap on its home battery program (there was a huge waiting list), so all customers who’d like to get Tesla Powerwalls can now do so. There are currently 5,000 Powerwalls installed in customers’ homes.

  Government regulators sure do love throwing away regulations when there's an opportunity for one of Elon Musk's companies to make money. I wonder that tends to cost.

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