When Tesla started constructing a in Angleton, Texas, a city some 40 miles south of Houston, there have been questions on what the corporate deliberate to do with the power. Now we all know.

Per an utility filed by the corporate with the state’s Public Utility Commission, Tesla needs to promote electrical energy on to shoppers in Texas. Tesla Energy Ventures, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the automaker, made the transfer in mid-August, in accordance with . If authorized, the corporate may begin promoting electrical energy to residents as early as November.

Tesla has constructed utility-scale vitality storage initiatives in numerous components of the world, together with and , however has thus far averted promoting electrical energy saved in these amenities on to shoppers. Instead, it has tended to work with suppliers by serving to them with their storage wants.

But that was earlier than a chilly snap in February left a lot of Texas . When the facility grid failed, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who by that time had not too long ago , took to Twitter to mock the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT). “Not earning that R,” he stated of the nonprofit group, which manages roughly 90 % of the Texas energy grid.