When will Tesla's home battery make financial sense?
Last week, Elon Musk unveiled Tesla Energy, a line of batteries that can store power for utilities, businesses, and homes. It’s the home part people were most excited about, and coupled with solar panels, it’s also the part that has the most long-term potential to change the way we manage energy. But it’s also the part of Musk’s lineup that’s most mired in rapidly changing regulations, rate structures, and incentives, making it hard to tell when a battery in your home makes financial sense. In most markets, the answer seems to be not yet.
The latest analysis comes from Bloomberg‘s Tom Randall, who learned that Solar City, the solar installer that’s run by Musk’s cousins, is offering only the 10kWh Powerwall to its customers, not the…
Source:: The Verge
