Elon Musk says Tesla can rebuild the Puerto Rico's power grid 6 Hours Ago | 01:06
Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk said he will speak to Puerto Rico's governor about helping get the hurricane-hit island's power grid back online.
On Thursday, Musk tweeted that his company has built solar grids for many small islands, adding that there "is no scalability limit, so it can be done for Puerto Rico too."
Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rossello responded early Friday saying: "Let's talk today; I will be in touch."
Musk tweeted back saying that he would be "happy to talk."
Last month, Puerto Rico was badly hit by Hurricane Maria. Electricity is not up and running yet and millions of citizens are struggling without basic necessities.
Tesla makes the Powerpack storage battery, which it's deploying in other countries. For example, Musk won a contract from South Australia to install a 100 megawatt facility, which could power 30,000 homes.
Evil2Good on October 6th, 2017 at 14:11 UTC »
“Welcome, to Tesla Island!” (Jurassic Park music)
Edit: Thanks so much for the gold, you guys are the best! ( /u/CanadasMooseOverlord )
RinconImages on October 6th, 2017 at 13:40 UTC »
Being in Puerto Rico for the last two weeks after the storm, aside from our water and food stores, our next most valuable and useful item was our personal solar charging panel. Right now I think these are one of the best small items that people can donate to the island, and it is very exciting hearing the prospect of large scale solar making it's way to the island.
crylicylon on October 6th, 2017 at 13:11 UTC »
Reminds me of the Prestige and Nikola Tesla's agreement with Colorado Springs.