Tesla to start selling leccy in the UK?

[tamore]

did a search, but couldn't see anything about this. don't know if it should be N, P & E either?

anyway, looking like Tesla are advertising for a Head of Operations for a UK retail electricity arm. Mission seems to be to shake it all up and get the push to 100% renewables going faster.

can they be successful in their goal?

[andy43]

If they timed their electricity demand for customers battery charging to track peak eco supply periods they could be onto a winner but it’d only be Tesla/power wall owners who’d benefit I’d guess.

[tamore]

that would make no sense for a business model. fair enough for their own public chargers as it kind of matches the number on the road.

Edited by tamore on Saturday 14th October 15:09

[autumnsum]

I think this is part of their overall goal, and with their energy storage, solar etc. they could be taking an interesting 'all in one' approach.

Didn't ecotricity try to make an EV once but gave up? Similar thinking, I suspect.

[raspy]

tamore said:

did a search, but couldn't see anything about this. don't know if it should be N, P & E either?

anyway, looking like Tesla are advertising for a Head of Operations for a UK retail electricity arm. Mission seems to be to shake it all up and get the push to 100% renewables going faster.

can they be successful in their goal?

This is old news, from July.

"Elon Musk’s Tesla is poised to disrupt Britain’s energy market with the launch of a new household supplier.

The maker of electric cars, which also runs an energy supply business in the US, plans to begin selling electricity to homes and running “virtual power plants”, according to a recent job listing.

The listing for Tesla Electric, which supplies electricity to households that own Tesla products such as cars or batteries, called for a new executive “with a healthy scepticism of the status quo” to manage the company’s entry into the UK market.

The advert for a head of operations, which was first reported by the Daily Telegraph, said Tesla Electric would be able to “support the transition of the entire electricity grid to 100% renewables”.

It is understood that Tesla may be planning to help customers who own a Tesla Powerwall battery, solar panels or one of its electric vehicles to store electricity when it is cheap, and sell electricity back to the grid when market prices are higher."

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jul/12...

[tamore]

terribly sorry about that. only searched PH, not the world wide web.