Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla is well-known and highly appreciated thanks to his visionary ideas. His most recent one, focuses on Puerto Rico which has been recently hit by hurricanes and suffered great casualties. This also means that most of the power grids in the country have been destroyed and Tesla is trying their best to help them restore power sources. Their first step was to send Powerwalls to Puerto Rico, which use solar energy but now Elon Musk is thinking about taking this to a next level. He suggested that Tesla could rebuild entire grid using only batteries and solar power, a highly sustainable power source which will reduce household costs and also benefit the environment. The initial plans of this project are presented in the video on the following link and by heading there you can also learn more about Elon Musk’s future plans for sustainable energy in Puerto Rico.

Mr Musk was asked: “Could @ElonMusk go in and rebuild #PuertoRico’s electricity system with independent solar & battery systems?”

The South African entrepreneur replied: “The Tesla team has done this for many smaller islands around the world, but there is no scalability limit, so it can be done for Puerto Rico too. ”

“Such a decision would be in the hands of the PR govt, PUC, any commercial stakeholders and, most importantly, the people of PR.”

“This is an opportunity to completely transform the way electricity is generated in Puerto Rico and the federal government should support this,” said Judith Enck, the former administrator for the region with the environmental protection agency.

Tesla Motors invented this highly useful battery, that is the dream of everyone who would like to switch to an off-the-grid living. The battery is called Powerwall and was designed in order to entirely power one’s home, without ever having to use the power grid again. The system of the battery is based on the same one used in the Tesla electric cars and it comes in two units: 7kWh ($300) or 10kWh (#3500). The energy the Powerwall battery will store, has to come from solar or wind generators and the battery will keep running even if the grid goes down. You can order these batteries, starting this summer and we invite you to watch the presentation clip from the following link for more information about this groundbreaking product.

Here is a clip from the initial release

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKORsrlN-2k

Tesla is working on a battery that can power your home and even help large-scale utilities store energy more efficiently, according to company chief executive Elon Musk.

source:  teslamotors.com