Solar City in South Pacific / Solar City nel Sud Pacifico. Segnalato dal Dott. Giuseppe Cotellessa / Reported by Dr. Joseph Cotellessa Our video comes from SolarCity, which has just unveiled the microgrid it has installed on Ta’u, a Pacific island that is part of American Samoa. Home to around 600 residents, Ta’u has historically been powered by diesel generators, each of which guzzles about 300 gallons a day. On top of that, the fuel needs to be transported to the island regularly, adding to both the cost and inefficiency of generation, and risking power outages when weather prevents ships from docking. The new microgrid will solve many of these problems, meeting almost 100 per cent of the island’s energy requirements. Over the past year SolarCity has installed 5,328 solar panels, providing 1.4MW of capacity. Storage comes courtesy of Tesla, whose merger with SolarCity was confirmed this week. Sixty of its Powerpack’s will deliver 6MW hours of
