Tesla's microgrid (CMG) powerwall

CMG - community micro-grids


 Tired of utility antics?  Tired of centralized, ancient legacy, corporate-speaking, shareholder return centered, monopolistic utilities?  (gee, tell me how i feel about utilities! :-)

If you want to go off-grid for your entire house, 
independent of your local utility company, there is now a mainstream, hi-end solution:  Tesla's Powerwall. 

 This is the first commercially available and viable community power storage solution that makes SO much sense.  It's crazy that single households within any given neighborhood have these and don't share them!  Paralleling several Tesla powerwalls can easily power an entire neighborhood (10-20 homes) .  Increase the PowerWall's size just a little bit and it can power several blocks! 

  The shared economy is coming to CMG's  ... yeah!

read on...
https://electrek.co/2018/11/05/tesla-shared-powerbank/


'.... two energy companies have decided to use Tesla’s bigger solution generally reserved for commercial and utility applications, the Powerpack, to create a new ‘shared Powerbank’ as a community alternative to individual Powerwalls.
The project is led by government-owned Western Power and Synergy, an energy company operating in Western Australia.
A 105kW (420kWh) Tesla Powerpack and inverter system has been deployed in the City of Mandurah.
The two companies are making the energy capacity available to 52 families with solar installations in Meadow Springs.
They started looking for households interested in the project last month and planned on launching next year, but so many people applied for the spots so rapidly that they already launched the program, which will be operating on a trial basis for the next two years.
It officially came online today – three months ahead of schedule'

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