TESLA Battery saves the day

User: guy.hermann@gmail.com

Vendor: Drive Green - Green Energy Consumers Alliance

Action: 2596 - Reduce Wasted Electricity

We bought a TESLA battery thinking that it would be a good, quiet, backup to have during power outages. It has been. The only way we know there has been an outage is the sound of a neighbor's generator starting. While the battery doesn't have the long-running capacity of a generator installation, we managed to nurse it through a three day outage without unplugging the fridge. That is worth the cost alone. What we didn't realize was that National Grid's Connected Solutions program would pay us to use our battery to help power the grid on hot summer days. We thought this would be mostly an environmentally altruistic gesture, so the first annual check for $800 was a very pleasant surprise!