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If the Texas power crisis taught us anything, it’s that the state has some serious infrastructure issues that not even the state’s regulators are prepared to fix. Thankfully, everyone’s favorite high-profile Twitter troll, Elon Musk, might have a plan: a giant battery ready to plug more than 16,000 homes’ worth of power into the state’s electric grid.
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Bloomberg first reported the news on Monday that a little-known Tesla subsidiary named Gambit Energy Storage LLC had begun work on a major energy storage facility based out of Angleton, Texas, a small suburb sitting just south of Houston. An Ercot official stated that the battery has a “proposed commercial operation date” starting June 1.