Tesla unveils giant new 360 MWh Megapack project that is going to help power 60,000 homes

Tesla has unveiled its latest elephantine Megapack task consisting of 360 MWh of vigor retention capableness utilized successful performance with a star workplace to assistance powerfulness 60,000 homes.

Arevon is becoming 1 of Tesla’s biggest partners successful the deployment of vigor retention capacity.

Last year, Tesla and Arevon signed a woody for the erstwhile to proviso a grounds magnitude of 2 GW/6 GWh of Megapack batteries to the second for respective caller vigor retention projects.

That’s much capableness than Tesla has deployed implicit the past 2 years combined.

They are already moving connected respective projects together, and Tesla unveiled 1 of them successful a caller video today:

The task called ‘Townsite Solar and Storage Facility’ is located successful Boulder City, Nevada, a fewer miles from Las Vegas, and it consists of implicit fractional a cardinal star panels.

For Tesla’s part, the institution supplied 360 MWh of Megapacks to assistance instrumentality afloat vantage of that star power.

Tesla writes astir the project:

“Arevon’s Townsite Solar and Storage Facility generates 500,000 MWh annually, powering 60,000 homes and avoiding 400,000 tons of c dioxide emissions per year.”

It has go 1 of Tesla’s biggest Megapack projects successful the world.

Megapack has rapidly go the go-to merchandise for large-scale vigor retention projects.

Tesla precocious increased the terms of the vigor retention device arsenic its backlog extends into the adjacent year. In bid to code the demand, Tesla is gathering a caller Megafactory successful California to ramp up production.

As we antecedently reported, CEO Elon Musk believes that Tesla Energy volition go a distributed planetary utility, an endeavor that could adjacent outgrow the company’s automotive business.

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