Tesla Uses Solar Energy to Power The Entire Island

Tesla has just completed a $ 2.6 billion acquisition of SolarCity, and to celebrate this big move, Tesla has just announced a stunning solar energy project: solar power supply in Tau Island, American Samoa. Previously, the island was powered by diesel generators, and in the past year, through the Tesla transformation, now the Tau island 600 residents have been almost 100% through Tesla's smart solar energy Power supply.

The project really shows the impact of Tesla's acquisition of SolarCity, which uses 5,328 solar panels to store 60 Tesla Powerpacks, according to Tesla's Smart Solar Grid. But for now, Tesla SolarCity acquisition is still a risky decision, after all, the latter also has billions of dollars in debt. But Tesla boss Elon Musk is still optimistic about the acquisition, saying the deal is a very important part of Tesla's clean energy generation plan.

Tau Island after transformation, through the full use of solar power, the annual savings of 109500 gallons of diesel fuel consumption and fuel transportation costs. Tesla said that such a small island consumes so much energy and transportation costs each year, is very unreasonable and unscientific practice, and the transformation of solar energy will have a significant impact on the island's economy.

Tau Island's "mini-smart grid" can be stored for three consecutive days without the use of sunlight in the case of electricity, and only 7 hours to achieve full power reserve. And institutions, including hospitals, police stations and fire departments, will also use solar power.

Tau Island has always been one of the most affected by global warming, one of the islands, rising sea levels and sea water on the beach's bedroom, the island's residents had a very big impact. This time the island has been transformed into solar power, not only for the reduction of global carbon emissions has made its own contribution, but also played a large role model.