Tesla will provide a mega battery in Apple for its giant solar fleet in California

Apple regularly demonstrates its commitment to fight concretely against climate change by investing massively in renewable energies.Since 2018, all of its sites have been supplied with green electricity.The apple brand now announces that it will have a mega battery to store the energy produced by the giant solar park which feeds its seat in California.And she entrusted the construction to ... tesla.

Apple has long displayed its ambition to become carbon neutral by 2030 and Cupertino's company does not spare the efforts to achieve it.Among the very many renewable energy production facilities that she operates, is the 280 MWC giant California Flats photovoltaic farm located in the county of Monterey in California.Since 2017, it belongs to Capital Dynamics, a financial asset management company, but the apple brand uses electricity produced via a PPA [1] for a period of 20 years.

A few days ago, Apple reported the construction of a giant 60 MW battery which will store part of the electricity produced by this park.An announcement that did not go unnoticed since we learned shortly after the apple brand concluded with Tesla a contract of $ 60 million for the supply and installation of Lithium ion batteries.It will be 85 megapacks whose cumulative storage capacity will be 240 megawats force (MWH).

Apple wants to show the example

The electricity produced by the panels will be stored during sunny hours to be returned during the evening consumption tip and during darker hours.It will in particular feed the company's headquarters offices in Cupertino.According to Apple press release, a battery of this capacity would be able to provide current to 7,000 Californian households for 24 hours.

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"Apple wants to show the example" said Lisa Jackson, brand vice-president, "and prove to other companies that this type of installation can solve the problem of the variability of solar and wind energies".

Megapack: an XXL battery in a container format

If Tesla is mainly renowned for the construction of its electric vehicles, we know that Elon Musk's company is also active in the energy sector.In addition to its solar tiles and panels, it offers electricity storage solutions with domestic "PowerWall" and "PowerPack" batteries, large capacity modular accumulators for industry.But also since 2019 the "Megapack", the XXL version of these.Assembled by dozens on the same site, they can provide giant powers and storage capacities used in particular to balance and secure networks.Each Megapack, in a maritime container format, is shipped from the fully assembled and easily transportable factory.

Not the biggest in the world

The battery that Tesla will deliver to Apple will certainly not be the largest in the world, or even from California since this record is currently held by a battery of 250 MW / 250 MWh operated in San Diego by LS Power and whose capacity should beat 1000 MWh in a few months.

At the end of 2020, Tesla had also announced the conclusion of a partnership with French Neoen for the installation of another giant battery of 300 MW / 450 MWh near Melbourne, Australia.

[1] A PPA or "Power Purchase Agreement" ("energy purchase contract") is an electricity delivery contract concluded in the long term between two parties.