Tesla powers on 125MW/250MWh Megapack project in Texas

Tesla has formally powered on its newest Megapack challenge within the U.S., this time touchdown in Texas to assist the state’s power supplier stabilize the grid.

On Friday, Tesla introduced that it has formally energized a 125 MW/250 MWh Megapack challenge operated by Autobidder in North Texas, as introduced by the corporate’s power account on LinkedIn. The challenge is being operated in tandem with the Electrical Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), and Tesla says the set up will assist with each supporting grid stability and managing the utility supplier’s accelerating load progress.

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Tesla has been quickly deploying its grid-scale Megapack batteries this 12 months, and it has introduced plenty of newly working initiatives all over the world during the last a number of months. Over the summer time, Tesla secured a contract for 3 Megapack initiatives totaling 15.3 GWh of power storage throughout three websites, 966MWh of which is situated in Texas. The websites can be operated in partnership with Intersect Energy, which says that the corporate is aiming to have the initiatives commissioned inside a 12 months of announcement.

The corporate produces Megapacks at its “Megafactory” in Lathrop, California, which has been ramping up manufacturing of the power storage product during the last couple of years. Finally, the corporate is anticipating to achieve a quantity annual manufacturing of 10,000 Megapacks or 40 GWh. In the meantime, Tesla is nearing completion of a Megafactory in Shanghai that can characteristic the identical yearly manufacturing capability after a ramp-up interval, and the plant is already aiming to begin delivery Megapack models in Q1.

Tesla constructed its 10,000th Megapack in Lathrop earlier this month, indicating that the corporate is progressing towards its annual manufacturing goal, after it broke floor on the positioning in 2021 and started manufacturing in 2022. The corporate’s power division has additionally been rising into its highest margin enterprise, and gross sales progress within the sector has been outpacing that of Tesla’s automotive enterprise—each of which had been predicted by Elon Musk going into 2024.

As of the tip of Q3, Tesla introduced that it deployed a record-breaking 20.3 GWh of battery storage initiatives within the nine-month interval, which was already greater than the corporate deployed all through all of 2023 (14.7 GWh). The determine, cut up between the Megapack and the Powerwall house batteries, was made up of 6.9 GWh deployed within the third quarter, 9.4 GWh within the second, and 4.1 GWh within the first three months of the 12 months.

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