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Get Your Behind-the-Meter Battery for $15 a Month [View all]
Tesla and Green Mountain Power: Get Your Behind-the-Meter Battery for $15 a Month
by Jeff St. John
May 12, 2017
Tesla and Vermont utility Green Mountain Power are offering a low price for home backup batteries: $15 per month.
Now they’ve only got to get 2,000 customers to sign up, and make sure they’re capturing the additional grid benefits from each Powerwall 2 to make the price pencil out for the utility.
That’s the plan behind Tesla’s offering, unveiled Friday, to equip Vermonters with emergency backup power during blackouts.
That’s less than half the $37.50 per month that GMP set for its first test-run offering of Powerwalls back in late 2015, after testing Tesla’s technology in a pilot project in Rutland, Vt.
The difference in prices comes from two main sources...
https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/tesla-and-green-mountain-power-get-your-behind-the-meter-battery-for-15-a-m?utm_source=Daily&utm_medium=Newsletter&utm_campaign=GTMDaily
Tesla and Green Mountain Power: Get Your Behind-the-Meter Battery for $15 a Month
A super-cheap energy storage offering, built on the promise of the Powerwall 2 and SolarCity’s GridLogic software.
by Jeff St. John
May 12, 2017
Tesla and Vermont utility Green Mountain Power are offering a low price for home backup batteries: $15 per month.
Now they’ve only got to get 2,000 customers to sign up, and make sure they’re capturing the additional grid benefits from each Powerwall 2 to make the price pencil out for the utility.
That’s the plan behind Tesla’s offering, unveiled Friday, to equip Vermonters with emergency backup power during blackouts.
That’s less than half the $37.50 per month that GMP set for its first test-run offering of Powerwalls back in late 2015, after testing Tesla’s technology in a pilot project in Rutland, Vt.
The difference in prices comes from two main sources...
https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/tesla-and-green-mountain-power-get-your-behind-the-meter-battery-for-15-a-m?utm_source=Daily&utm_medium=Newsletter&utm_campaign=GTMDaily
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