Tesla is helping Texas with 81 Megapacks to avoid a repeat of last year's horrific winter disaster that left many without power in the cold.
Tesla is helping Texas with 81 Megapacks to avoid a repeat of last year’s winter disaster. Gail Alfar gave me a call yesterday and as I was turning on my air conditioner , she told me that Austin was iced in. My first reaction was “oh crap, that means we will freeze tomorrow” — usually Baton Rouge catches whatever weather Austin has a day later.
Fortunately for us, the temperatures won’t be in the teens here as it is for Gail and the rest of Austin. However, we are pretty much upon the anniversary of that horrendous freeze that devastated Texas and the rest of the south last February. Here in Louisiana, there was a joke that hell would freeze over if Mardi Gras was ever canceled, and the freeze happened for us on Mardi Gras day .
This year, Tesla is settling into its nice new headquarters and is having a positive impact on the state. Gail shared the following tweet with a video from Tesla’s YouTube channel explaining how the 81 Tesla Megapacks will provide 200 MWh of energy in support of the Texas grid during outages. In February 2021, parts of Texas lost power for three days. Temperatures were below 14°F. Demand went up and the grid went down. Today, 81
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