The small Filipino town of Paluan on the island of Mindoro has been electrified with the installation of its own Tesla battery powered solar plus storage mini grid. The new mini grid provides power to local residents who had been living on just a few hours of unstable electricity that came and went as inconsistently as the weather.
Solar and storage minigrids are electrifying towns across the Philippines
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