{"id":75766,"date":"2018-02-04T08:23:06","date_gmt":"2018-02-04T16:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/tesla-is-installing-powerwalls-and-solar-power-on-50000-homes-to-create-biggest-virtual-power-plant-in-the-world"},"modified":"2018-02-04T08:23:06","modified_gmt":"2018-02-04T16:23:06","slug":"tesla-is-installing-powerwalls-and-solar-power-on-50000-homes-to-create-biggest-virtual-power-plant-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/tesla-is-installing-powerwalls-and-solar-power-on-50000-homes-to-create-biggest-virtual-power-plant-in-the-world","title":{"rendered":"Tesla is installing Powerwalls and solar power on 50,000 homes to create biggest virtual power plant in the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tesla-is-installing-powerwalls-and-solar-power-on-50000-homes-to-create-biggest-virtual-power-plant-in-the-world.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tesla has been making big moves on the energy storage market in Australia, but they are now all being dwarfed by this new project that will see them install solar arrays and Powerwalls on 50,000 homes to create the biggest virtual power plant in the world. The company\u2019s main project has been the 100MW\/ 129MWh Powerpack project in South Australia, the largest in the world for now. But now instead of being a large centralized battery system using Tesla\u2019s Powerpacks, the new project announced today is using Tesla\u2019s residential battery system, the Powerwall, to create decentralized energy stora\u2026<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/newsstand.google.com\/articles\/CAIiEIkeAfkHHqiXQ_pFdQ4UYq4qGQgEKhAIACoHCAowqoP5CjDpz-ACMJ_YtAU\">https:\/\/newsstand.google.com\/articles\/CAIiEIkeAfkHHqiXQ_pFdQ...-ACMJ_YtAU<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tesla has been making big moves on the energy storage market in Australia, but they are now all being dwarfed by this new project that will see them install solar arrays and Powerwalls on 50,000 homes to create the biggest virtual power plant in the world. The company\u2019s main project has been the 100MW\/ 129MWh [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,15,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-habitats","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75766","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=75766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}