Tesla to Power Gigafactory with World’s Largest Solar Rooftop Installation

January 17th, 2017

Disclosure: I sell solar power systems in New Zealand.

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Via: Inhabitat:

Just last week Tesla announced battery production had started at their Nevada Gigafactory, but didn’t mention one thrilling detail in their January 4 announcement: the Gigafactory could be powered by the world’s largest solar rooftop installation. An investor handout revealed a 70-megawatt (MW) solar array along with ground solar panels could enable the massive factory to operate entirely on clean energy.

The 70 MW solar array would be around seven times larger than any rooftop arrays currently installed, according to Tesla’s exciting handout released by Electrek and confirmed as genuine by The Verge. The rooftop array currently boasting the title of world’s largest is a 11.5 MW installation in India. The United States’ biggest rooftop array is a 10 MW array atop a California Whirlpool distribution center.

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