Tesla and SolarCity switch island of Ta’u to solar-only power

• 8 years ago (2016-11-23)
• David Flin

Africa 321 Asia 893 Australasia 56 Biomass 8 Climate change 21 Coal 297 Cogeneration 1 Concentrating solar 5 Cyber security 8 Decarbonisation 1 Decentralised energy 6 Demand side management 3 Demand side response 2 Digitalisation 10 Distributed energy 10 Distribution 122 Electric vehicles EVs 4 Emissions 65 Energy management 2 Equipment 2 Europe 1089 Gas 394 Gas engine plant 64 Gas fuel 2 Horizon 2 Hydroelectric 17 Hydrogen 60 Hydropower 131 Latin America 80 Maintenance 3 Marine 1 Metering 2 microgrid 5 Middle East 327 North America 1021 Nuclear 660 Offshore wind 121 Oil 19 Operations 4 Policy 9 Regulations 3 Renewables 776 smart grid 2 Solar 273 Storage 45 substation 8 Tepco 2 Tidal 2 Toshiba 4 Transmission 191 US Senate Washington 4 Wind 257

---

SolarCity and Tesla have announced that they have rolled out a solar power and battery storage enabled microgrid on the island of Ta’u in American Samoa. It has 1.4 MW of solar generation capacity, and 6 MWh of battery storage from 60 Tesla Powerpacks, and the facility was implemented within one year.