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Okay, so TSLA can go ahead and capture the Hawaii and Alaska energy storage market.

Virtually everywhere else has dams they can take advantage of. The places that don't have abandoned mines for Compressed-Air energy storage. Continental US has a ton of natural resources at its disposal that can be built up to significantly cheaper solutions than Lithium Ion.



> Okay, so TSLA can go ahead and capture the Hawaii and Alaska energy storage market.

And Australia. And Europe. And anywhere that is placing a premium on renewable energy. Tesla's market for batteries increases each time they're able to lower their price as volume increases.

> Virtually everywhere else has dams they can take advantage of. The places that don't have abandoned mines for Compressed-Air energy storage. Continental US has a ton of natural resources at its disposal that can be built up to significantly cheaper solutions than Lithium Ion.

There is no point in us arguing further when you don't base your argument on reality. You can't put dams anywhere. You can't build salt caverns anywhere. You can put batteries anywhere.


Right. Because Lithium Ion is the only battery technology out there.

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/11/new-type-flow-battery...

Good luck competing against Redox Flow. Its a miracle that Elon Musk has been able to get so much done with Laptop-batteries (18650 Cells). But the new chemistries actually designed for grid-storage are coming, and they crush laptop-batteries in cost and capacity.

The Gigafactory is designed to make Electric car batteries, and the 26650 (successor to the 18650 laptop cells) aren't even being produced yet. How long before TSLA / Panasonic can tweak the gigafactory to make a cell optimized for grid energy-storage?


Tesla PowerWalls and PowerPacks are already being installed. When are redox flow batteries going to be built? Put into production?


In about a month.

http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/articles/2015/08/hecate-...

Your turn. Show me a 1MegaWatt-hr or larger TSLA installation. kw-installations (Power Wall) are small money, I don't care about that. I care about hundreds-of-million $$ installations.

The only things I see for TSLA are planned projects and/or demos.

Redox Flow is a bit newer technology than Lithium Ion, but small-scale installations already exist all over the world.

http://www.energy-storage-online.com/cipp/md_energy/custom/p...


> In about a month.

"Slated for commissioning in 2016, ViZn's ZnFe redox flow battery system will be the largest of its type in North America and Europe."

"The first of these projects is expected to be brought online by the end of Q316."


Yes. And TSLA doesn't have any utility scale projects except the hypothetical 1MW plant in Ireland until sometime later this year.

Small-scale deployments of Lithium Ion are not going to be as efficient as large-scale deployments of Redox Flow. Period. I don't think TSLA has bet on the right technology at the utility scale. Lithium Ion is great for cars, but better technologies simply exist in other niches.

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Look, Redox Flow batteries are ahead of TSLA. They exist right now at the "small scale" of 2.2MWhr.

http://www.uetechnologies.com/product.htm

These are the numbers for a utility-scale level company... currently mass producing Redox Flow batteries. TSLA power wall just doesn't compete. Not by a long shot.




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