{"id":13523,"date":"2015-02-20T15:00:52","date_gmt":"2015-02-20T23:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=13523"},"modified":"2017-06-04T12:02:08","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T19:02:08","slug":"why-teslas-battery-for-your-home-should-terrify-utilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/why-teslas-battery-for-your-home-should-terrify-utilities","title":{"rendered":"Why Tesla\u2019s battery for your home should terrify utilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a class=\"author fn\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/users\/Josh%20Dzieza\">Josh Dzieza<\/a> \u2014 The Verge<br \/>\n<br \/> Earlier this week, during a disappointing Tesla earnings call, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2015\/2\/11\/8023443\/tesla-home-consumer-battery-elon-musk\" target=\"new\">Elon Musk mentioned<\/a> in passing that he\u2019d be producing a stationary battery for powering the home in the next few months. It sounded like a throwaway side project from someone who\u2019s never seen a side project he doesn\u2019t like. But it\u2019s a very smart move, and one that\u2019s more central to Musk\u2019s ambitions than it might seem.<\/p>\n<p>To understand why, it helps to look not at Tesla, but at SolarCity, a company chaired by Musk and run by his cousin Lyndon Rive. SolarCity installs panels on people\u2019s roofs, leases them for less than they\u2019d be paying in energy bills, and sells surplus energy back to the local utility. It\u2019s proven a tremendously successful model. Founded in 2006, the company now has 168,000 customers and controls 39 percent of the rapidly expanding residential solar market.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2015\/2\/13\/8033691\/why-teslas-battery-for-your-home-should-terrify-utilities\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Josh Dzieza \u2014 The Verge Earlier this week, during a disappointing Tesla earnings call, Elon Musk mentioned in passing that he\u2019d be producing a stationary battery for powering the home in the next few months. It sounded like a throwaway side project from someone who\u2019s never seen a side project he doesn\u2019t like. But [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13523"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64827,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13523\/revisions\/64827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}