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Tesla and California utility PG&E launched a new program<\/a> that will pay eligible Powerwall owners to send extra electricity to the grid when it\u2019s vulnerable to blackouts. Working together, the Powerwalls create a \u201cvirtual power plant\u201d that can help keep the lights on during emergencies or energy shortages. <\/p>\n

By signing up, Powerwall owners will receive $2 for every additional kilowatt-hour they feed to the grid during designated \u201cevents\u201d when the grid is under a lot of stress. That includes any time the California grid operator, CAISO, issues an energy alert, warning or emergency.<\/p>\n

Tesla started a similar beta program<\/a> with PG&E and a couple of other utilities last July, but that was a voluntary program with no payouts. Now, with a monetary incentive to entice participants, the program could grow large enough to become a significant backup energy source<\/a> in California \u2014 and a clean one at that. <\/p>\n

Participants would \u201chelp form the largest distributed battery in the world \u2014 potentially over 50,000 Powerwalls,\u201d according to Tesla. That distributed battery \u2014 or virtual power plant, in other words \u2014 can replace gas-fired power plants that typically come online to provide extra juice whenever power demand starts to outpace supply. <\/p>\n

Tesla already has experience with this in other places. The company has been building out<\/a> a virtual power plant in Australia<\/a> over the last several years. And it wants to expand more in the US. Tesla is pushing the grid operator in Texas<\/a> to change rules that would allow its customers to earn money for participating in a virtual power plant program. The company launched a demonstration project<\/a> earlier this year that asks Powerwall owners to volunteer to participate to show the grid operator how such a program might work. For now, without any rule changes, Tesla is offering the volunteers a $40 Tesla gift card \u201cas a token of appreciation.\u201d<\/p>\n

In California, PG&E customers who own a Powerwall can sign up to join the virtual power plant through the Tesla app. Once they\u2019re in the program, called the Emergency Load Reduction Program, they\u2019ll start receiving push notifications ahead of events when the grid needs emergency support. To keep some backup power for themselves, they\u2019ll be able to specify a \u201cbackup reserve level.\u201d Tesla won\u2019t discharge the battery below that level. <\/p>\n

After accumulating $2 for every additional kWh sent to the grid, participants will receive payments from Tesla \u201con an annual basis, or on a more frequent basis as determined by Tesla.\u201d For this season, participants can expect to be paid by the end of March 2023, according to Tesla.<\/p>\n

California\u2019s grid is particularly stressed this summer. Energy demand typically rises during hot months while people blast their air conditioners. To make things worse, an extreme drought is forecast<\/a> to cut the state\u2019s hydroelectricity supply in half this season. Hot, dry weather also raises the risk of wildfire, so PG&E has made a habit of implementing preemptive power outages in an effort to prevent live power lines from sparking blazes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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