Tesla Energy Ventures applied for a UK electricity supply licence to serve domestic and non-domestic premises. Tesla has supplied residential solar panels and battery systems (Powerwall) and utility-scale batteries (Megapack) and operates retail energy services elsewhere, reselling grid energy and enabling customers to sell excess solar back. More than 8,000 people have asked Ofgem to block the licence application following Elon Musk's previous interference in UK politics. Ofgem declined to confirm details while the application is processed. Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey wrote to the Energy Secretary urging the application be blocked and called Musk a national security threat.
Tesla Energy Ventures, a subsidiary of Tesla, made an application [PDF] in July to the Gas and Electricity Markets Authority for an electricity supply licence to serve domestic and non-domestic premises in the UK. Elon Musk's electric buggy-maker has been playing on the margins of the power business with residential solar panels and battery systems for home users (Powerwall) and utitilites (Megapack) for years.
The company does not operate power plants itself, but rather resells energy from the grid while providing management tools for end users, and allowing those with home solar panels and batteries to sell their excess power back to the grid. The company did not explain exactly what it's planning in the UK, but it's presumably along these same lines. Nonetheless, it's facing resistance.
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