Keen-eyed observers in the United States have taken to Twitter to reveal that American electric automotive and battery storage giant Tesla has rolled out its new Mega-pack battery storage option at the company’s busiest electric charging stations during the US Thanksgiving long weekend.
Tesla first unveiled its long-promised Mega-pack battery back in late-July, the company’s newest battery storage option intended to compete with ever-larger electric battery storage options.
A single Mega-pack has up to 3MWh of storage capacity and a 1.5MW inverter and is intended to provide electric utilities – and windand solar farm operators – with an even larger capacity battery storage option.
However, over the US Thanksgiving holiday long weekend, Tesla took its new Mega-pack on the road, literally driving it around on a long trailer combined with its smaller Urban Supercharger stalls.
The first portable supercharger at the SLO supercharger. It can charge 100 cars! It has a bunch of urban chargers attached to a mega pack. pic.twitter.com/Nv1Q5VywKb
— Brian Swenson (@t3knerd) November 27, 2019
The intent was to provide extra storage options during the busy holiday period, something the company has done in the past, but by deploying diesel-powered mobile Supercharger stations.
Now, however, the company has taken the logical next step and combined its mobile stations with large-scale battery power.
“Mega-pack significantly reduces the complexity of large-scale battery storage and provides an easy installation and connection process,” the company wrote in a blog post about Mega-pack in July.
“Each Megapack comes from the factory fully-assembled with up to 3 megawatt hours (MWhs) of storage and 1.5 MW of inverter capacity, building on Powerpack’s engineering with an AC interface and 60% increase in energy density to achieve significant cost and time savings compared to other battery systems and traditional fossil fuel power plants.
“Using Megapack, Tesla can deploy an emissions-free 250 MW, 1 GWh power plant in less than three months on a three-acre footprint – four times faster than a traditional fossil fuel power plant of that size. Megapack can also be DC-connected directly to solar, creating seamless renewable energy plants.”
