{"id":136134,"date":"2022-02-27T10:22:48","date_gmt":"2022-02-27T18:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/florida-man-bought-tesla-storage-batteries-for-his-solar-system-pays-almost-nothing-to-fpl"},"modified":"2022-02-27T10:22:48","modified_gmt":"2022-02-27T18:22:48","slug":"florida-man-bought-tesla-storage-batteries-for-his-solar-system-pays-almost-nothing-to-fpl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/florida-man-bought-tesla-storage-batteries-for-his-solar-system-pays-almost-nothing-to-fpl","title":{"rendered":"Florida man bought Tesla storage batteries for his solar system, pays almost nothing to FPL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/florida-man-bought-tesla-storage-batteries-for-his-solar-system-pays-almost-nothing-to-fpl2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fred Closter doesn\u2019t like Florida Power &amp; Light.<\/p>\n<p>When the Boynton Beach retiree spent $24,000 to install <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/solar+panels\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">solar panels<\/a> on the roof of his Boynton Beach home a year ago, he decided not to rely on the utility to power his home when the panels weren\u2019t generating electricity at night and when it rains.<\/p>\n<p>So he dropped another $16,000 on two large lithium ion batteries made by Tesla that can power the home for up to a day and a half if his panels aren\u2019t producing. If a hurricane or other severe storm with the potential to create power outages approaches, the Closters\u2019 solar provider, SunPower, will remotely direct the system to charge their batteries so their power won\u2019t be interrupted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fred Closter doesn\u2019t like Florida Power &amp; Light. When the Boynton Beach retiree spent $24,000 to install solar panels on the roof of his Boynton Beach home a year ago, he decided not to rely on the utility to power his home when the panels weren\u2019t generating electricity at night and when it rains. So [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,15,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-habitats","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136134","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}