Apple will use Tesla’s ‘megapack’ batteries at its California solar farm
On Wednesday Apple announced that it’s building a big battery storage project at a Northern California solar farm it spearheads in 2015.
According to the Documents submitted last year,” The newly announced setup, which will store up to 240 megawatt-hours of energy, was approved by the Monetary County Board of Supervision in 2020. It will consist of 85 Tesla lithium-ion ”megapacks” and be used to help power the company’s corporate headquarters in Cupertino. Monterey County’s planning chief confirmed that Apple will use the Tesla batteries.
Tesla first announced the megapack battery system back in 2019. The 60MW storage setup Apple will be using is not Tesla’s biggest, though. The company has built bigger overall battery storage solution in Australia and south of Houston Texas of around 100MW in size still, Apple touted it as ”one of the largest battery projects in the country’, the battery system could power more than 7,000 homes for a whole day, the Tesla batteries will make it possible for Apple to store energy generated by its 130- megawatt solar array at the farm, which is called California Flats.
Tesla is best known for its electric cars, but it’s spent years trying to build up an energy storage business to compliment the solar products it acquired when it bought solar city. It has gotten increasingly involved in large-scale energy storage projects like Apple’s over the years in addition to its home battery business.
