Tesla is Challenging Traditional Technology

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Traditional electricity supply depends on large power stations delivering huge amounts of electricity. These transmit the energy over long transmission lines, stepping the voltage down progressively. However, the model is capitally intensive, and depends on there being no broken links in the chain. Now Tesla is challenging this model in Australia, and moreover we think the long-term odds could be in their favor.

Tesla Plants 50,000 Home Power Stations

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Photovoltaic System: Rfassbind: Public Domain

CNBC Australia reports thousands of solar battery systems will be going into homes in South Australian soon. Thus, this event is a microcosm of decentralized power delivery.

Because it shifts the center of control to individual consumers. Tesla is thereby challenging them to generate their own electricity, and to supply their surplus to the grid to cover installation cost.

The project will roll out in phases. Thus far, 1,100 five-kilowatt solar panels and 13.5 kilowatt-hour powerwall batteries are good to go. Moreover, this technology comes free for the lucky South Australia homeowners.  However, they will pay for it later, by handing over their surplus electricity free until they settle the bill. The scheme will incorporate a total 50,000 homes over the next four years.

The Amazing Potential of this Scheme

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Grid Connected System: S-kei: Public Domain

Tesla is challenging tradition in a highly disruptive way, because it is investing in consumer freedom instead of large power stations.

The free energy the lucky 1,100 homeowners generate, converts into value for powering more homes in future. Could this be the ultimate solution for going green affordably?

We live in hope that there is a way to dispense with this centralized power generation, and its contingent risks. Individual neighborhoods could form local networks supporting each other, in the event of grid failure,. Do you see the vision, and how Tesla is challenging an outmoded electricity tradition that has had its day?

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