Some Big Changes at Hampshire

ALF
Sun, 10 Jan 2016 22:35:23 +0000

According to the article, “This Just Might be the Greenest College in the World”, by EcoWatch (http://ecowatch.com/2015/12/23/hampshire-college-solar/), the solar panel project will include storage batteries, supplied by Tesla. The article claims that the batteries have, “…10 kilowatts of storage to provide back up power during periods of low generation”, which doesn’t make any sense. Battery storage is quantified as kilowatt-hours (kWh). If they meant that the batteries will have 10 kilowatt-hours of storage, that too doesn’t seem right. I have a Nissan Leaf electric car with battery capacity of 24 kWh. I’d like to think that the storage capacity of Hampshire’s solar-charged batteries will be a lot more than about half of my little car.