Tesla's Grid Storage Architect

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🗓️ 4 May 2017

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Since the day Tesla was founded, executives saw stationary storage as a compliment to the electric car business. That was Martin Eberhard's plan when he co-founded the company and envisioned the Tesla Energy Group. Years later, after launching the Powerwall, CEO Elon Musk said the storage business could soon eclipse automobiles. Today, storage is an integral part of Tesla's package of offerings for consumers, and its development plans for utilities. In 2009, Mateo Jaramillo was hired to execute Tesla's storage strategy. Well, eventually. First, he was responsible for developing the company's powertrain. Over time, he became more heavily involved in stationary storage -- eventually building Tesla's in-house storage development arm and the team that designed the Powerwall and Powerpack. He drew on his years of experience at Gaia Power Technologies, where he worked on some of the earliest behind-the-meter battery systems in New York. Last December, Jaramillo left Tesla to focus on his next career move in storage. The LinkedIn description of his new job job reads: "The Next Thing." This week, we caught up with Jaramillo to talk about what that "next thing" might be. We talked about the history of behind-the-meter storage, the evolution of Tesla's approach to the market, and where storage business models and applications are headed. Thanks to our launch sponsor, AES Energy Storage. The grid is changing. Fast. And AES Energy Storage is helping utilities harness the power of battery-based energy storage to make the electric power system cleaner, more flexible, and more reliable. Find out more. Big thanks to our launch sponsor, AES Energy Storage: http://aesenergystorage.com/interchange Make sure to subscribe to the Interchange: iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-interchange/id1221460035?mt=2 SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/theinterchangepodcast Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-interchange Our RSS Feed: http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:298570872/sounds.rss Bookmark our Interchange web page: https://www.greentechmedia.com/podcast/the-interchange See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Hey Stephen here. This week we're serving up another episode of the Interchange.
0:05.0	Shel Khan and I are talking to Mateo Haramio, one of the most important people behind Tesla's energy storage strategy.
0:12.0	You may remember this podcast used to be behind a
0:14.4	paywall. Well no more thanks to our launch sponsor AES Energy Storage.
0:18.8	AES Energy Storage is a world- provider of grid scale storage projects.
0:24.4	It is part of AES Corporation, which owns $36 billion in energy assets and serves electricity
0:30.4	to over 9 million people worldwide.
0:33.0	Listeners of this show know that we are entering a new era.
0:36.0	It's the electrification of everything,
0:38.0	and the grid needs to keep up.
0:40.0	That means making it into a more distributed, flexible, and cleaner network.
0:44.4	AES is helping unlock the true power of the electricity system with Advanceon.
0:49.5	Advanceon is a battery-based energy storage platform that helps utilities modernize their power systems rapidly and at a much lower cost than traditional infrastructure investments.
1:00.0	Advanceon can handle any application, and it's always instantly available without the need to burn fuel or invest in expensive peaking generation or other infrastructure designed to meet flexibility or reliability needs.
1:12.0	It's time to unlock the full potential of the electric power system.
1:15.8	That means building a new energy network, transforming the grid with energy storage, accelerating
1:20.6	renewables, and electrifying everything.
1:23.0	That is the vision and mission of AES energy storage.
1:27.0	Learn more about AES's offerings by visiting AES Energy Storage.
1:32.0	dot com slash interchange. You can find the link in our show notes. E S Energy Storage. Energy Storage.
1:33.6	You can find the link in our show notes.
1:35.6	And if you like this episode, and I think you will, particularly if you're into storage,
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