So today Tesla motors announced battery backup systems for homes and I have to say this is freaking cool!  I’ve been thinking about outfitting my house with solar panels for a while and always wanted a system that allows me to store excess energy.  The Powerwall would make this job very easy and I wonder if you can buy a few units and run them in parallel for more capacity, that’d be pretty darn cool to have a modular system.

Musk wants to boost the amount of renewable energy use in the United States and around the world. “We have this handy fusion reactor in the sky called the sun,” he said at the press conference. The idea is to create an easy, efficient way to store energy generated by sunlight during the day that can then be used at night (the 7 kWh version), or during emergency scenarios (10 kWh). For comparison, a refrigerator uses about 0.2 kWh and lighting a room uses 0.1 kWh.

I’ve been saying for a while now that I believe the future of power generation is in micro generation done at the local level, on tops of houses and buildings, the space is there we might as well leverage it!  I can’t wait for the Tesla Powerwall to roll out in Canada. 🙂