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FOSTER CITY, California (AP) .- Billionaire Elon Musk, who is never short of bold ideas, is determined to transform the electricity market.

The CEO of Tesla Motors, maker electric vehicles, expects to connect millions of batteries with solar panels on homes and businesses so that the world can be disconnected from power plants and benefit from it.

The night before last, before an enthusiastic audience and party atmosphere, Musk explained how it intends to achieve.

The businessman took the stage installed at the Tesla design studio near Los Angeles International Airport, encouraged by supporters who wore glasses in hand, in a scene from a dreamer known for outlandish projects follow.

Colonize Mars is one of the objectives of Musk with SpaceX spacecraft company he leads. Now it has set another ambitious mission. “Our goal here is to change fundamentally the way the world uses energy,” he told reporters at Hawthorne, Calif.

Although Tesla will build the battery Power Wall, will other companies that the marketed. The list of partners includes SolarCity, a firm of installing solar panels founded by Lyndon and Peter Rive, cousins ​​Musk. This is the president and principal shareholder of SolarCity.

As with electric cars Tesla, with a starting price of $ 70.000, the batteries will probably be too expensive for most consumers. The suggested price will be $ 3,000 to $ 3,500, depending on the desired capability. The installation would apart. That could slow initial adoption, especially for a product that could be of limited use.

“I do not think that this product in its first incarnation is interesting for ordinary people,” admits Peter Rive, SolarCity chief technology. However, expected to be enough demand to increase substantially the amount of domestic batteries.

Projection future.

Musk is so encouraged by the initial demand he believes Tesla and other future rivals will sell lots of 2,000 million batteries worldwide, a similar number of vehicles on the streets.

While that might sound like something “superloco” Musk insists ” do is within reach of humanity. ” But there is still a long way to get there.

Tesla expects to begin shipments of a limited set of batteries Power Wall this summer in the United States before expanding to the world next year.

For now, the battery serves primarily as an expensive backup system power outages. David Cunningham, an aerospace engineer in Foster City, installed late last year, a Tesla battery to make it work with his pair of photovoltaic panels, a test of the Public Utilities Commission of California on battery performance.

Although Cunningham’s house has not suffered blackouts in the six months that have had the battery is able to use her household appliances such as lights and refrigerators. In the day can be recharged by solar panels.

“While solar panels have I think it’s logical that the two devices go hand in hand,” he explains. “I think I have an entire electrical system here at home.”

It is likely that the batteries become more useful if, as expected, most regulators and utilities allow energy prices vary during the day depending on market conditions. Thus, the computer program that controls the solar system and the battery would allow customers to use electricity generated at home, and not the energy of the red- costly when prices rise.

Many corporate customers and They buy and Tesla announced his energy and battery systems designed for them and lots of larger batteries that can be used to manage your network. Analysts say these corporate and utilities markets are likely to be most promising for Tesla in the years to domestic customers.

Batteries In short

Power Wall

The long-term goals are to reduce dependence on energy from fossil fuels and create regional networks of domestic batteries that can be controlled as if they were a power plant. This would be another way for companies to ensure energy supply peak demand

. Source: AP


               
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