Elon Musk's SolarCity Offering To Build Cities, Businesses Their Own Grids

Posted by timothy on Tuesday March 24, 2015 @02:15AM from the low-voltage-lighting-helps-too dept.

Lucas123 writes Rooftop solar distributor SolarCity announced a new service where it will build a centrally-controllable power grid for cities, business campuses and even islands. Marketing its GridLogic service by calling attention to the recent uptick in natural disasters and the extended power outages that resulted from them, SolarCity said its "microgrids" are fully independent power infrastructures fed by solar panels with lithium-ion backup batteries (courtesy of Tesla). SolarCity claims its GridLogic program can provide electricity to communities and businesses for less than they pay for utility power and the facilities can still be connected to their area's utility power grid as an added backup.

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Re:Okay, we're clear on what you're promising by Anonymous Coward · 2015-03-24 02:39 · Score: 5, Insightful

Has he ever given any reason to doubt him?
Says he can build an electric car, ends up producing the safest, best engineered, and fantastic car ever made, for under $100k. And now they're working on making it drive itself.
Says he can build rockets for a fraction of the cost everyone else is charging. Ends up producing the most successful and economical lift vehicles in existence. Also working on a way for it to land itself on a platform in the ocean.
I'd say he has a history of under-promising and over-delivering.