{"id":475,"date":"2017-03-28T15:55:53","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T19:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/semba\/?p=475"},"modified":"2017-03-28T15:59:42","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T19:59:42","slug":"from-the-web-tesla-moves-beyond-electric-cars-with-new-california-battery-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/2017\/03\/28\/from-the-web-tesla-moves-beyond-electric-cars-with-new-california-battery-farm\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Web: Tesla moves beyond electric cars with new California battery farm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-477\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/semba\/files\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-28-at-2.21.18-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1212\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-28-at-2.21.18-PM.png 1212w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-28-at-2.21.18-PM-300x158.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-28-at-2.21.18-PM-768x406.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-28-at-2.21.18-PM-1024x541.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-28-at-2.21.18-PM-500x264.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/>The California Battery Farm project is part of Elon Musk\u2019s plan to help transform the power grid.\u00a0Located at the Mira Loma substation of Southern California Edison, this is the\u00a0biggest battery farm Tesla has built to date. Southern California Edison will use the battery farm, which has been operating since December and is one of the biggest in the world, to store energy and meet spikes in demand \u2013 like on hot summer afternoons when buildings start to crank up the air conditioning.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sustainable-business\/2017\/jan\/31\/tesla-battery-farm-california-energy-elon-musk\"><strong>Learn more <\/strong><\/a><em>(via The Guardian) &gt;&gt;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The California Battery Farm project is part of Elon Musk\u2019s plan to help transform the power grid.\u00a0Located at the Mira Loma substation of Southern California Edison, this is the\u00a0biggest battery farm Tesla has built to date. Southern California Edison will use the battery farm, which has been operating since December and is one of the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/2017\/03\/28\/from-the-web-tesla-moves-beyond-electric-cars-with-new-california-battery-farm\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;From the Web: Tesla moves beyond electric cars with new California battery farm&#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":true,"_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-475","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\/p8b9n0-7F","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475","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=475"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":483,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions\/483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}