- Solar for those who dont have solar roofs eventbrite install#
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It’s a solar garden: a field with community solar.
Solar for those who dont have solar roofs eventbrite full#
How did they do it? Matt and Amber learned about community solar.ĭrive 20 minutes east on Minnesota Highway 55 from the Christians’ townhouse, and you’ll reach a field full of solar panels. Yet today, the Christians are saving money by powering their townhouse with solar power. Their homeowner’s association forbids it.
Solar for those who dont have solar roofs eventbrite install#
Matt and Amber Christian can’t install solar panels on their townhouse roof. I'd like to be optimistic about Tesla, but they've just had too many failures/delays to think otherwise.Read the original article on, a foundation working to build support for conservative solutions on clean energy issues. * Interesting that the Model 3 no longer comes with a solar roof option. And eventually, dust, bird shit, leaves, and other stuff are going to cover your solar tiles, which means you'll have to clean them quite often for best results * Glass that gets debri on it is way less efficient than clean glass. So these solar roof tiles are only applicable to the small number of houses that also have good sun exposure. * I think about 200,000,000 people in the US live in condos, apartments, etc.
* Their "strength test" was obviously BS because of course glass is that strong, but the electronics underneath would be totally obliterated. * Seems like it's vaporware with no working models Reminds me of the bullshit "solar-roadways" in several ways: Only thing I've found is a DIY effort here: Installed on a house? I haven't even seen any evidence of *one* working tile. I still believe the Solar Roofs will change the paradigm of residential solar and could generate billions in incremental revenue for Tesla, but the project is moving slower than I originally anticipated. But in the long run, these delays are usually taken to improve the product and refine it for mass-market success. That being said, Tesla has a history of making ambitious launch and installation plans, only to come up slightly short (we all remember what happened with the Model X). With a several-month delay, and a key player leaving (SolarCity CTO Peter Rive), there's no question the Solar Roof product isn't off to a red hot start. It's impossible to know what's going on behind the scenes at Tesla but according to the company, his responsibilities will be redistributed throughout other engineering teams at the company. Even more concerning is that according to multiple sources, the Solar Roof project was directly under his responsibility. SolarCity Co-Founder and CTO Peter Rive is quitting. But this week, some unsettling news surfaced. Now although we are well into July, a month delay for a Tesla product would not normally surprise me. Up until this point, it remains very unclear if any Solar Roof installations have been completed. This was all great news and signaled that demand for this new type of residential solar was very strong.Īt the time of this reporting, Electrek noted that the first installations of the Solar Roof product were due to start in June, in certain parts of California.Ī quick check of Tesla's Solar Roof website also indicates that installations are (or were?) scheduled to start in June of this year. Just two weeks after the Solar Roofs pre-orders ($1,000 refundable deposits) went live, Tesla announced that it was sold out well into 2018.
This was the first step in Tesla's signature crowdfunding-esque strategy of accepting deposits to reserve a spot in line to buy the Solar Roofs. In May 2017, after the merger was finalized, more details about the Solar Roofs were unveiled, and Tesla launched a new page on its website dedicated to the product. This was exactly the disruptive, business-model-changing product that SolarCity needed. The days of installing ugly solar panels on rooftops (and signing massive leases to acquire them) looked like things of the past.
The entire paradigm of residential solar is at a major inflection point if Solar Roofs can indeed go mainstream. Like many Tesla fans, I was totally surprised by this announcement and immediately started getting excited about the potential of this new product. Elon Musk originally unveiled Tesla ( NASDAQ: TSLA) and SolarCity's joint Solar Roof product in late 2016, just before the merger was completed.
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