Rockhampton Man Leads Solar Technology Charge
Eager to cut back on his quarterly $1700 bill, the Millroy St resident is now leading the pack as the first in Rockhampton to have installed and registered the Tesla Powerwall home battery - designed by the entrepreneurs behind Tesla vehicles and privately owned satellite launch company Space-X, which works for NASA. Solahart manager and design engineer Grant Bond installed the system about one month ago, and explained the system was a "scaled down" version of the batteries used in Tesla's solar-powered cars, and worked with solar panels to potentially cut back your usage from the grid to zero. "In essence the solar panels produce power through the day, that power initially is going into Peter's house so any power he is using during the day he is using through the solar panels," Grant explained. "And any leftover is then going into the battery, charging the battery, and then in the afternoon and evening he is drawing power back out of the battery.&q