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Tesla's Monster 54,000 Solar Panel Power Plant In Kauai Opens
Posted on 3/9/17 at 10:56 am
Posted on 3/9/17 at 10:56 am
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Do you think we see more of these in major cities anytime soon? Oil oddly enough finally cracked below $50 yesterday the day this thing opened. Kauai is a small place is this even realistically feasible for any large city?
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The Kauai project consists of a 52 megawatt-hour battery installation plus a 13 megawatt SolarCity solar farm. Tesla and the Kauai Island Utility Cooperative, the power company that ordered the project, believe the project will reduce fossil fuel usage by 1.6 million gallons per year.
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KIUC didn’t purchase the solar panels and battery system from Tesla outright. Instead, the utility contracted with Tesla to purchase electricity. There’s a 20-year contract in place to buy the solar-generated power for 13.9 cents per kilowatt hour — in effect, Tesla is now in the power generation business.
Do you think we see more of these in major cities anytime soon? Oil oddly enough finally cracked below $50 yesterday the day this thing opened. Kauai is a small place is this even realistically feasible for any large city?
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Posted on 3/9/17 at 10:58 am to dabigfella
quote:Big Cajun 2 close to New Roads can generate about 1600 MWs. 2 coal units and a gas unit.
The Kauai project consists of a 52 megawatt-hour battery installation plus a 13 megawatt SolarCity solar farm.
Posted on 3/9/17 at 11:00 am to dabigfella
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Do you think we see more of these in major cities anytime soon?
It is already happening. But they're not in big cities. All of the ones I know about are in the country and it is a strange ownership set up. Lots of tax benefits to building and operating a solar farm.
Posted on 3/9/17 at 11:00 am to dabigfella
Gah. Look at these assholes. Just stealing the sunlight from the rest of us!
Posted on 3/9/17 at 11:01 am to TU Rob
Does solar technology have to improve more or do they have to find more space bc if it takes 54,000 solar panels to power kauai, I cant imagine what is needed to power a place like San Fran or Los Angeles that would probably be on board for something like this
Posted on 3/9/17 at 11:01 am to Bluefin
Looks terrible.
Posted on 3/9/17 at 11:03 am to dabigfella
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I cant imagine what is needed to power a place like San Fran or Los Angeles
Not to mention how valuable the real estate is surrounding these cities. They would need substantially more land at an exponential cost.
Posted on 3/9/17 at 11:06 am to dabigfella
luuv is gonna find a way!!
Posted on 3/9/17 at 11:08 am to dabigfella
In a few years, it won't take nearly as much space. Those solar panels were basically outdated by the time they opened.
Posted on 3/9/17 at 11:10 am to dabigfella
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Does solar technology have to improve more or do they have to find more space bc if it takes 54,000 solar panels to power kauai, I cant imagine what is needed to power a place like San Fran or Los Angeles that would probably be on board for something like this
You won't see it for major cities. At least not powering the entire city. Just too much infrastructure already in place. Where you will start to see it are large buildings or campuses that can supplement with solar or go completely off the grid. It is still in the small stage phase now. Imagine someone like Apple or Google that has a large campus. They can solar panel the roof on larger buildings and run off of that. You can't power a manufacturing plant that draws tons of energy but running LED lights and computers and an HVAC system is doable.
Posted on 3/9/17 at 11:12 am to dabigfella
Posted on 3/9/17 at 11:15 am to airfernando
I believe wind is the energy source of the future.
Placing wind farms offshore and along side buildings in urban centers seems to be much more efficient than solar.
Imagine placing these along the MS river levee
Placing wind farms offshore and along side buildings in urban centers seems to be much more efficient than solar.
Imagine placing these along the MS river levee
Posted on 3/9/17 at 11:15 am to airfernando
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Those solar panels were basically outdated by the time they opened.
So do you think they will be replacing them or no? Seems intriguing for most cities if costs are the same, i read it was 13.7 cents/kwh which sounds high but maybe not for hawaii where everything else is significantly more.
Posted on 3/9/17 at 11:19 am to dabigfella
wow...that looks terrible.
Posted on 3/9/17 at 11:21 am to dabigfella
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in effect, Tesla is now in the power generation business
When will Elon Musk invent the arc reactor and the iron man suit?
Because he's literally following the Iron Man trilogy.
Electric cars
Self driving cars
Energy sustainability
Iron man.
Posted on 3/9/17 at 11:22 am to Chicken
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wow...that looks terrible.
And this is beautiful?
Granted it is a much smaller geographical footprint
Posted on 3/9/17 at 11:22 am to dabigfella
That's reducing oil consumption by 38,000 barrels. 
Posted on 3/9/17 at 11:24 am to Ben Hur
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Not to mention how valuable the real estate is surrounding these cities. They would need substantially more land at an exponential cost.
Do I smell a Jazz land proposal?
Posted on 3/9/17 at 11:28 am to Breesus
man they'd be stealing the solar panels and hawking them at pawn shops in mthe west bank, cmon now
Posted on 3/9/17 at 12:03 pm to dabigfella
What happens to the land beneath the panels? This seems like a terrible idea in the long run.
Put them on top of buildings or something.
Put them on top of buildings or something.
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