energy storage

“However, the automotive leg is 95% of the company, and the energy storage and the solar are only five percent of the company. So his initial vision, Tesla is an EV company with a hobbyist Business in solar and energy storage.”

“I think one of the advantages we have today is that we have more solar and wind and energy storage installed. You know, the industries are more mature, and I think that has caught, that has built the political support for industrial policy.”

“Anything at that scale that you're talking about, it doesn't matter what duration you're picking there for long duration, at that scale, you know, hundreds of gigawatts, there's no realm in which having something That large show up on the grid does not involve…”

“From 20 20, when we had some issues with the grid, we had 503 megawatts Online. In 2023, as of last count, this is September, we had 5000 megawatts of energy storage online in California. I mean, in just three years, we've had a tenfold, nearly tenfold increas…”

“We've seen energy storage, you know, go from one hours to two hours to four hours. You know, are we going to be six hours in a few years? Probably.”

“Most of the energy storage in the world, about 90% of all energy storage globally, is pumped hydro, which requires a mountain, a ton of water, and usually a whole lot of permitting.”

“If you're trying to turn solar into 24 hour, you need a 16 hour discharge duration, basically to produce power, you know, between the time the sun goes down to the time the sun comes back up.”

“You can actually safe harbor and stockpile years, even decades, of a nation's worth of fuel and energy in the form of uranium and nuclear fuel. You can't do that with any other power generation technology. You can't do that with gas. You can't do that with coa…”