Power Wall Pricing

[Diggin It]

I've seen these things mentioned now a few times, but I haven't seen any pricing or costs. The crazy Mars guy's company offers one and Generac has something. Might even be the same, rebranded.

But none of the sites I've seen have prices. They all want in home quotes I don't want to get into that if it's going to be 10 grand. A search just now shows third party sites claiming up to 15 grand including installation. That ain't a'gonna happen.


No room for solar panels here realistically and the calculators don't show them to be practical. Wind is intermittent with many still days, so turbines aren't practical either.

If anything, I'd want a power wall type system to charge off the grid and or off the generator so that I could cycle the generator on/off over so many hours to ration fuel.

So, if you have them, or have priced them, share the numbers!!

 

[/pine]

Tesla lists the Powerwall at a cost of $7,000 alone, and puts supporting hardware costs at $1,000, bringing the price of just the Powerwall and its associated components to $8,000 before installation.

 

[user.69169]

Tesla provides calculator on line. Do like I do, poke in neighbor address so he gets de junk mail.
https://www.tesla.com/powerwall/design

Nice idea, probly Lithium battery, looks little higher price den Onan + fuel + battery ferto start.

Reminds me I gotta get to installin my solar panels I bought from de Science teacher who got new siding put on his house & couldn't get SunFurnaces back on. Think I wait fer summer.

 

[MossRoad]

I've seen these things mentioned now a few times, but I haven't seen any pricing or costs. The crazy Mars guy's company offers one and Generac has something. Might even be the same, rebranded.

But none of the sites I've seen have prices. They all want in home quotes I don't want to get into that if it's going to be 10 grand. A search just now shows third party sites claiming up to 15 grand including installation. That ain't a'gonna happen.


No room for solar panels here realistically and the calculators don't show them to be practical. Wind is intermittent with many still days, so turbines aren't practical either.

If anything, I'd want a power wall type system to charge off the grid and or off the generator so that I could cycle the generator on/off over so many hours to ration fuel.

So, if you have them, or have priced them, share the numbers!!

Power wall can charge off the grid if you don't have solar.
Power wall can charge off of solar.
Power wall cannot charge off of the grid if you have solar.
Power wall cannot charge off of a generator.

More fun facts...
https://www.tesla.com/support/energy/powerwall/learn/combining-systems

 

[jaydee325]

Several years ago, I spec'd a system out on their website. You could place an order but at that time your deposit just got you a place in line (sound familiar!?)

The setup was batteries and auto transfer switch (no solar panels). This unit charged from the grid so view the setup as a whole house generator, only the batteries supply the power instead of a generator during an outage. I don't recall the price, but do recall for a setup that would go 7 days on my house with geothermal heat pump was about 3 times the cost of a LP whole house generator setup.

 

[MossRoad]

If I had solar power, I think I'd just stick with a generator for power outages. They are few and far between. Generator is 1/7 the cost of the power wall. You can buy a lot of fuel for the $6K saved. Even an auto transfer auto start generator is 1/2 the cost of the power wall.

Now if you had solar panels with the capacity to run your house AND fully charge the power wall, then you'd be able to power your house from the batteries at night. But all that ads up the cost. I doubt you'd ever get the ESP/ROI on the entire system without massive tax credits. And what's the warranty on the batteries in the power wall?

 

[CADplans]

I've seen these things mentioned now a few times, but I haven't seen any pricing or costs.
So, if you have them, or have priced them, share the numbers!!

So, what I am wondering is,,,
What does it do?

Is it just some sort of backup for when power is out? Or does it reduce your electricity cost somehow??

You know,, like,, a garden tractor will cut grass,,
a snow blower will move snow,,
a wood splitter will,,, well you know,, SPLIT WOOD!!

I truly do not have an understanding as to what the $8K is gonna ,,,, DO!

What am I gonna get for the " pricing or costs " ?

Help,, please.

Thank you,,

 

[Snobdds]

your buying storage capacity.

If I was in California with rolling blackouts and brownouts, coupled with solar, I would buy the power wall.
If I was in someplace that has a real winter with lots of days of overcast, I would buy a generator.

I just bought this little thing for my cabin. It has enough capacity to where I can power the entire cabin for 4 nights without a charge. If I add 2 100w solar panels, and the sun cooperates, I can add back in enough power to never have to charge it from a generator. It basically the same thing as a power wall, but it has a lot more features. For most people, this little thing would work for most power outages without having to run a generator. Then it acts as a back up if the power goes out here at home if I don't feel like hooking up the kubota generator.

Bluetti AC2??P 2???Wh/2???W Portable Power Station|Solar Generator

 

[user.69169]

BRAGGIN RIGHTS!
Like when de girls at tennis club and Boopsie tell Winnie (very sorority names) how 3 door ZeroZone finally not freezin de milk. Now maybe she key in grocery order fer home delivery.
Probly works fer guys in funny costumes chasin little ball around pasture too. I see it bein real big wid de Longgggg Island fellows who made (removed) lot of money after flood.

 

[bunyip]

Tesla et al batterries about $1k per kw here, run on solar during day and use surplus at night, grid charges are high but it is hard to justify a 15kw battery and 10kw solar, we are getting about 8kw solar, $4k with government rebates, just waiting on install at the moment.
Wind is high maintainance according to most installers.