Big Step In The Green Direction.
Tesla has secured a massive new Megapack project that is being deployed in lieu of a planned gas peaker plant in California.
Peaker plants are power plants that electric utilities only turn on to briefly provide power during peak demand.
They are costly and polluting.
Tesla aims to help replace them and avoid building new ones with battery packs used as stationary energy storage.
The idea is that giant battery systems would charge from the grid when demand is low and discharge at peak demand to help reduce the peak of power production.