Tesla Powerwall users participate in the California virtual power plant project, making a profit of $574 a year

CTOnews.com, February 12 (Xinhua) Musk stressed when he released the second part of his master plan in 2016 that solar solutions such as solar roofs and Powerwall can smoothly integrate energy production and storage. He also pointed out that if homeowners can sell their reserve electricity back to the grid, then solar panels are essentially "money printing presses".

Such a scenario has become possible in favor of California's emergency load reduction project.

California Grid compensated Powerwall users who now live in California for 10 virtual power plant VPP events last year, but that's just the extra energy collected from the sun by solar panels.

Tesla sent him an email a few days ago:

Hi, Mark.

Thank you for participating in the California emergency load reduction plan through Tesla virtual power plant.

By using the Powerwall support grid in 2022, you earned a total of $574.77 (currently about 3914 yuan). Your payment has been mailed to the address associated with your Tesla account. To learn more about program participation, reward payments, and how to configure the system for the upcoming season, please visit our support page.

To this end

Tesla team

Since Tesla launched the pilot program in California in 2021, a large number of users have tried it, and the scale has been expanded last year. The CTOnews.com inquiry found that Powerwall owners receive compensation of $2 for every kilowatt-hour of electricity delivered to the grid.

Tesla Powerwall allows users to generate electricity from solar panels and then store temporarily unused electricity, or use storage stations to store electricity for household use or charge electric cars during off-peak hours, with 13.5 kilowatt hours per Powerwall. However, to get more storage capacity, you can also install up to 10 devices in parallel to form an array.

Of course, Tesla's Powerwall 2 has a number of different use cases. For example, when there is a power outage, users can use the device as a backup power source, which functions like a generator, or as an energy storage device, using rooftop solar cell arrays to absorb energy, maximize renewable energy and reduce dependence on local grid power.

Tesla China's official website currently shows that Powerwall and other energy products are not yet open for booking, click on the Powerwall product page can only see the "get the latest information" option.