{"id":428,"date":"2017-03-20T16:44:45","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T20:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/semba\/?p=428"},"modified":"2017-03-20T16:44:45","modified_gmt":"2017-03-20T20:44:45","slug":"from-the-web-teslas-kauai-solar-facility-offsets-1-6m-gallons-of-fuel-per-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/2017\/03\/20\/from-the-web-teslas-kauai-solar-facility-offsets-1-6m-gallons-of-fuel-per-year\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Web: Tesla\u2019s Kauai solar facility offsets 1.6M gallons of fuel per year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-429\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/semba\/files\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-18-at-11.17.18-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1348\" height=\"738\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-18-at-11.17.18-PM.png 1348w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-18-at-11.17.18-PM-300x164.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-18-at-11.17.18-PM-768x420.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-18-at-11.17.18-PM-1024x561.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-18-at-11.17.18-PM-500x274.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tesla\u2019s Kauai solar power facility is officially open for business, with a 13 MW SolarCity solar farm installation providing power to a Powerpack storage facility with 52 MWh of total capacity. The beauty of the new facility, in terms of the specific needs of the sun-soaked island in the Pacific, is that it can capture energy from the sun during peak daytime production hours, and then keep that power ready for peak consumption hours at night.<\/p>\n<p>Tesla\u2019s new solar facility in Kauai isn\u2019t going to completely reduce its dependence on fossil fuels \u2014 the island will still rely on diesel shipped in to provide some of its power requirements. But the new facility will offset some of that use of dirty burning fuel, reducing overall usage of fossil fuels for power needs by around 1.6 million gallons per year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2017\/03\/08\/teslas-kauai-solar-facility-will-offset-1-6m-gallons-of-fuel-use-per-year\/?ncid=rss\"><strong>Learn more<\/strong><\/a> <em>(via Tech Crunch)<\/em> &gt;&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tesla\u2019s Kauai solar power facility is officially open for business, with a 13 MW SolarCity solar farm installation providing power to a Powerpack storage facility with 52 MWh of total capacity. The beauty of the new facility, in terms of the specific needs of the sun-soaked island in the Pacific, is that it can capture &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/2017\/03\/20\/from-the-web-teslas-kauai-solar-facility-offsets-1-6m-gallons-of-fuel-per-year\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;From the Web: Tesla\u2019s Kauai solar facility offsets 1.6M gallons of fuel per year&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3919,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[221,427000,425248,425622],"tags":[4433],"class_list":["post-428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-from-the-web","category-green-leap","category-renewables","tag-sustainability"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8b9n0-6U","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3919"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":431,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions\/431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}