{"id":138313,"date":"2022-04-19T08:23:04","date_gmt":"2022-04-19T13:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/tesla-megapack-project-with-730-mwh-of-capacity-is-now-up-and-running-on-pges-network"},"modified":"2022-04-19T08:23:04","modified_gmt":"2022-04-19T13:23:04","slug":"tesla-megapack-project-with-730-mwh-of-capacity-is-now-up-and-running-on-pges-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/tesla-megapack-project-with-730-mwh-of-capacity-is-now-up-and-running-on-pges-network","title":{"rendered":"Tesla Megapack project with 730 MWh of capacity is now up and running on PG&amp;E\u2019s network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tesla-megapack-project-with-730-mwh-of-capacity-is-now-up-and-running-on-pges-network2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>PG&amp;E announced that they have turned on their giant Tesla Megapack project with 730 MWh of capacity, and the electric grid company expects that it will \u201cenhance the overall reliability of California\u2019s ever-changing energy supply.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We first learned of the project at PG&amp;E\u2019s Moss Landing substation when it submitted it to CPUC and <a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/2018\/06\/29\/tesla-pge-giant-1-gwh-powerpack-battery-system\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the company was in talks with Tesla in 2017<\/a>. It involves four separate energy storage projects, and two of them, including the one using Tesla Megapack, should become the world\u2019s largest battery systems.<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, we obtained <a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/2018\/12\/15\/tesla-megapack-debut-giant-energy-storage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tesla\u2019s proposal for the project<\/a>, and it showed that the company plans to use \u201cMegapack\u201d instead of its usual Powerpack for large utility-scale projects. It was one of the first projects announced to use the new battery system, but the actual deployment took so much time that many more Megapack projects came online since.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PG&amp;E announced that they have turned on their giant Tesla Megapack project with 730 MWh of capacity, and the electric grid company expects that it will \u201cenhance the overall reliability of California\u2019s ever-changing energy supply.\u201d We first learned of the project at PG&amp;E\u2019s Moss Landing substation when it submitted it to CPUC and the company [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138313","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=138313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}