Elon Musk’s Tesla Battery + SolarCity’s Solar Systems = Clean Energy Future

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Rive also wrote that customers could one day make money from their solar battery systems by opening it up to others. “Our customer contract explicitly contemplates the potential of these markets and creates a revenue-sharing opportunity for the customer,” he wrote. “For utilities and grid operators, the technology is designed to enable remote-aggregated control of solar battery systems. I urge anyone reading this who is responsible for managing grid operations, and who is interested in procuring capacity, reactive power, or voltage management services deep in the distribution system to contact us.”

It’s no secret that both of Musk’s energy-progressive companies (the multi-tasking entrepreneur is a chairman of SolarCity and its largest shareholder) are looking for ways to revolutionize rooftop solar as well as mitigate climate change by curbing the consumption of fossil fuels. Tesla’s batteries potentially allows users to go completely off the grid with clean, green renewable energy.

SolarCity isn’t just offering Tesla’s latest game-changing gadget for residential customers. Businesses and government organizations can access the company’s DemandLogic energy storage system which reduces energy costs by using stored electricity to reduce peak demand, while remote communities can tap into the GridLogic microgrid service that’s ideal for places in the world that are vulnerable to power outages and high energy costs.

SolarCity is the largest solar power supplier for homes and businesses in the U.S. Last month, SolarCity activated a fund including an investment from Credit Suisse that is expected to finance more than $1 billion in commercial solar energy systems. This was only one month after Google committed $300 million to the company.

Solar power is growing at an incredible rate and will only spread as human-kind learns to better harness the sun’s rays. “We have this handy fusion reactor in the sky called the sun,” said Musk during Tesla’s product announcement last week. “You don’t have to do anything, it just works—shows up every day and produces ridiculous amounts of power.”

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