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據報道，特斯拉公司新興的儲能部門目前的利潤率相當微薄。與此同時，特斯拉公司的太陽能業務正在繼續下滑。
雖然如此，特斯拉公司仍在努力在未來幾個月內增加其Model 3電動汽車的產量，并且還有另外一個積極的增長目標，即儲能產品的產量將大幅增長。
特斯拉公司在2月6日下午發布的特斯拉第四季度和2017年全年財報中表示，計劃到2018年，其儲能部署的容量至少比2017年增加三倍。
該公司在給股東的公開信中寫道：“我們儲能產品的生產速度要與Model 3汽車的生產速度相當。”
特斯拉公司推出的名為Powerpacks的大型電池組，可以連接電網，為公用事業和企業提供電力服務，或與太陽能和風力發電場配套使用。該公司還出售電力容量較小的Powerwall設備，為家庭和小型企業提供備用電源等服務。
馬斯克表示住宅太陽能部署已受到家用電池供應短缺的影響
特斯拉公司一直認為其儲能部門具有巨大的增長潛力，但它已經將汽車業務放在了優先發展位置，這其中包括Model 3電動汽車。而通過此次為其儲能部門設定積極增長目標，特斯拉顯示出將會更加重視該行業的增長前景。
然而，Model 3電動汽車和特斯拉的電池廠Gigafactory的支出仍然和去年一樣，占據特斯拉公司2018年的大部分資本支出，而其汽車業務也帶來了大部分收入。
2017年全年，特斯拉公司創造了117.6億美元的收入，與2016年的70億美元的收入相比有所提升。2017的收入中只有11.2億美元來自于其儲能和太陽能聯合部門。
與此同時，特斯拉公司2017年虧損了22億美元，而2016年則虧損7.73億美元。盡管面臨巨大的虧空，但特斯拉首席執行官伊隆•馬斯克（Elon Musk）在收益電話會議上表示，他對特斯拉可以很快獲得GAAP盈利表示樂觀。
去年夏天，馬斯克在特斯拉公司的儲能團隊立下軍令狀，并在推特（Twitter）上打賭，能夠在100天內在南澳大利亞州安裝100兆瓦的電池儲能系統。特斯拉公司最終實現了這一目標，在南澳州詹姆斯敦（Jamestown）附近的風電場旁建造了世界上最大的電池系統。
特斯拉在股東公開信中表示，南澳大利亞州項目的成功促進了大型電池組Powerpack的市場需求。他說：“顯而易見，我們在大規模儲能方面有著巨大的機遇。”
除了南澳大利亞州項目外，特斯拉公司還在夏威夷考艾島、美屬薩摩亞島、康涅狄格州，以及加利福尼亞州的多個地點建造了大型儲能電池系統。
特斯拉公司日前表示，正在設法與南澳大利亞州達成另一項交易，為家庭住宅安裝多達50,000個Powerwall電池，并搭配屋頂太陽能電池板。特斯拉還在家得寶（Home Depot）和勞氏公司（Lowe's）的商店建立的售貨亭展示和銷售與Powerwall相結合的太陽能電池系統。
其儲能業務為特斯拉來帶來多種價值，這是特斯拉在消費者驅動的汽車銷售業務之外實現多樣化經營的一種方式，但這也可能是一個反復無常的市場。隨著公用事業公司希望增加更多的清潔能源，降低煤炭和核能的使用量，儲能部署將成為一個主要的增長市場。
特斯拉公司表示，2017年第四季度部署了143兆瓦時的儲能產品，比上年同期增長了45％。并表示，去年在南澳大利亞州建造的129兆瓦時電池儲能部署將在2018年第一季度得到認可。
盡管特斯拉公司的儲能產品銷售正在大幅增長，但目前似乎利潤率相對較低。太陽能和儲能聯合部門的毛利率在2017年第四季度僅為5.5％。而2017年第三季度該部門的毛利率為25.3％。
該公司表示，其太陽能業務部門季度銷售量持續下滑，盡管第四季度應該是部署的好時機。但是并沒有達到預期目標。特斯拉公司報告說，2017年第四季度僅部署了87兆瓦的太陽能，比2017年第三季度的部署量少了20％。
特斯拉公司表示，“由于我們今年早些時候決定撤消某些銷售渠道，并將重點放在利潤率更高的項目上，導致太陽能發電產品的銷量下降。此外，太陽能部署受到供電需求不足的影響，因為客戶希望在自家的太陽能光伏發電系統中使用Powerwall電池，而在短期內這些因素可能會繼續受到影響，但我們預計今年晚些時候將恢復增長。”
特斯拉公司表示，預計其太陽能和儲能聯合部門的毛利率將在2018年有所提高，因為它使得更多的Powerpacks和Powerwalls能夠以更低的成本生產。這通常是一種增加生產和削減成本的工作方式。
目前，特斯拉的儲能部門仍處于剛剛起步階段，特斯拉目前正在開展的其他項目可能會阻礙其規模的擴展。
特斯拉公司表示，增加Model 3產品的時間表與上次的財報電話會議所說的相同。特斯拉沒有提到Model 3發展目標，但在其股東信中表示：“我們之前的Model 3的經驗教訓表明，難以準確預測特定時間點的特定生產率。”
由于設定了多個業務目標，特斯拉儲能部門的業務可能會面臨成長的痛苦。例如，為了迅速地建立南澳大利亞電池農場，特斯拉公司轉而采用了三星公司提供的電池，而不是在其在Gigafactory自己生產的電池。因此，該公司仍然面臨業務過于分散的風險。（中國儲能網獨家編譯，轉載請注明來源）
原文如下：
Tesla Plans to Triple Battery Deployments in 2018
But margins are pretty slim for the emerging energy storage division. Meanwhile, Tesla’s solar business continues to decline.
Katie Fehrenbacher February 08, 2018
Tesla said residential solar deployments have been affected by a short supply of home batteries.
While Tesla is struggling to ramp up production of its Model 3 car in the coming months, it’s got another aggressive growth target in front of it: a big production ramp-up for its energy storage products.
In Tesla’s fourth-quarter and full-year 2017 earnings report released Wednesday afternoon, the company said that it plans to at least triple the amount of energy storage capacity it deploys in 2018 compared to 2017.
“[T]he production ramp of our storage products is just as steep as with Model 3,” the company wrote in its letter to shareholders.
Tesla sells large-scale battery packs, called Powerpacks, that can be plugged into the electric grid and provide services for utilities and companies or be paired with solar and wind farms. The company also sells the smaller Powerwall unit that provides services, such as backup power, to homes and small businesses.
Tesla has long maintained that it sees big growth potential in its energy storage division, but it has prioritized its automotive business, including the Model 3. By setting aggressive growth targets for its energy storage division for the year, Tesla is showing it’s finally taking the prospect of growth in the sector more seriously.
However, the Model 3 and Tesla’s massive battery factory, the Gigafactory, will still get the bulk of the company’s capital spend for this year -- as they did last year. The automotive business also brings in much of the revenue.
For the full year of 2017, Tesla generated $11.76 billion in revenue, which was a jump from the $7 billion in revenue it generated in 2016. Just $1.12 billion of that revenue in 2017 was from its combined energy storage and solar division.
At the same time, Tesla lost $2.2 billion last year, compared to a loss of $773 million for 2016. Despite the massive negative net income, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said on the earnings call that he is “optimistic” that Tesla could be GAAP profitable soon -- “with no asterisk.”
Musk threw down the gauntlet last summer for the company's energy storage group and made a bet via Twitter that Tesla could install 100 megawatts of energy storage in South Australia in 100 days' time. Tesla achieved that goal and built the world’s biggest battery farm next to a wind farm near Jamestown in South Australia.
Tesla said in its shareholders' letter that the success of the South Australia project has led to “an increase in demand” for the Powerpack. “It’s clear that there is a huge opportunity for us in large-scale energy storage,” wrote Tesla.
In addition to the South Australia project, Tesla has also built large battery farms on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, on the island of American Samoa, in Connecticut, and on multiple sites in California.
This week Tesla said it managed to score another deal with South Australia to install up to 50,000 Powerwall batteries in homes, paired with rooftop solar panels. Tesla is also building kiosks at Home Depot and Lowe’s stores that would show off and sell the Powerwall, combined with solar panels.
The energy storage business is valuable for Tesla in a variety of ways. It’s a way for Tesla to diversify outside of the consumer-driven business of selling cars, which can be a fickle market. It’s also a major growth market in its own right as utilities look to add more clean energy and reduce their reliability on coal and nuclear.
Tesla said that in the fourth quarter of 2017 it deployed 143 megawatt-hours' worth of energy storage products, growing installations 45 percent from the same quarter the year before. The 129 megawatt-hours of energy storage built in South Australia last year will be recognized in the first quarter of 2018, Tesla said.
While Tesla’s energy storage products are seeing significant growth, they appear to have relatively low margins for the time being. The combined gross margin for the division that comprises both solar and energy storage was 5.5 percent in the fourth quarter of 2017. That’s compared to a 25.3 percent gross margin for the division in the third quarter of 2017.
Tesla’s solar division continues to decline quarter-over-quarter, though it was supposed to right-side this quarter, according to the company. However, that prediction did not come to pass. Tesla reported that in the fourth quarter of 2017 it deployed just 87 megawatts of solar, which was 20 percent less than the amount deployed in Q3 2017.
"Solar [megawatts] deployed declined as volumes continue to be impacted by our decision to close certain sales channels earlier this year and to focus on projects with better margins," Tesla stated. "In addition, solar deployments were affected by the short supply of Powerwalls for customers who wanted solar plus Powerwall in their house. While volumes may continue to be impacted by these factors over the near term, we expect growth to resume later this year."
Tesla said it expects that the gross margin of the combined energy storage and solar unit will improve as it makes more Powerpacks and Powerwalls and gets better at manufacturing them at a lower cost. That’s usually the way it works: ramp up production and cut costs.
Right now Tesla’s energy storage division is still in a fairly nascent phase. And scaling it up could be hampered by all the other efforts that Tesla is currently working on.
Tesla says its timeline to ramp up Model 3 production is the same as it was last earnings call (delayed at least twice in the past, but not a third time). Tesla hedged its Model 3 goals, though, by stating in its shareholder letter: “Our prior experience on the Model 3 ramp has demonstrated the difficulty of accurately forecasting specific production rates at specific points in time.”
With so many balls in the air, Tesla’s ramp of its energy storage division could face growing pains. For instance, in order to build the South Australian battery farm so quickly, Tesla turned to Samsung to supply the batteries instead of making them itself at the Gigafactory. The company continues to risk spreading itself too thin.
雖然如此，特斯拉公司仍在努力在未來幾個月內增加其Model 3電動汽車的產量，并且還有另外一個積極的增長目標，即儲能產品的產量將大幅增長。
特斯拉公司在2月6日下午發布的特斯拉第四季度和2017年全年財報中表示，計劃到2018年，其儲能部署的容量至少比2017年增加三倍。
該公司在給股東的公開信中寫道：“我們儲能產品的生產速度要與Model 3汽車的生產速度相當。”
特斯拉公司推出的名為Powerpacks的大型電池組，可以連接電網，為公用事業和企業提供電力服務，或與太陽能和風力發電場配套使用。該公司還出售電力容量較小的Powerwall設備，為家庭和小型企業提供備用電源等服務。
馬斯克表示住宅太陽能部署已受到家用電池供應短缺的影響
特斯拉公司一直認為其儲能部門具有巨大的增長潛力，但它已經將汽車業務放在了優先發展位置，這其中包括Model 3電動汽車。而通過此次為其儲能部門設定積極增長目標，特斯拉顯示出將會更加重視該行業的增長前景。
然而，Model 3電動汽車和特斯拉的電池廠Gigafactory的支出仍然和去年一樣，占據特斯拉公司2018年的大部分資本支出，而其汽車業務也帶來了大部分收入。
2017年全年，特斯拉公司創造了117.6億美元的收入，與2016年的70億美元的收入相比有所提升。2017的收入中只有11.2億美元來自于其儲能和太陽能聯合部門。
與此同時，特斯拉公司2017年虧損了22億美元，而2016年則虧損7.73億美元。盡管面臨巨大的虧空，但特斯拉首席執行官伊隆•馬斯克（Elon Musk）在收益電話會議上表示，他對特斯拉可以很快獲得GAAP盈利表示樂觀。
去年夏天，馬斯克在特斯拉公司的儲能團隊立下軍令狀，并在推特（Twitter）上打賭，能夠在100天內在南澳大利亞州安裝100兆瓦的電池儲能系統。特斯拉公司最終實現了這一目標，在南澳州詹姆斯敦（Jamestown）附近的風電場旁建造了世界上最大的電池系統。
特斯拉在股東公開信中表示，南澳大利亞州項目的成功促進了大型電池組Powerpack的市場需求。他說：“顯而易見，我們在大規模儲能方面有著巨大的機遇。”
除了南澳大利亞州項目外，特斯拉公司還在夏威夷考艾島、美屬薩摩亞島、康涅狄格州，以及加利福尼亞州的多個地點建造了大型儲能電池系統。
特斯拉公司日前表示，正在設法與南澳大利亞州達成另一項交易，為家庭住宅安裝多達50,000個Powerwall電池，并搭配屋頂太陽能電池板。特斯拉還在家得寶（Home Depot）和勞氏公司（Lowe's）的商店建立的售貨亭展示和銷售與Powerwall相結合的太陽能電池系統。
其儲能業務為特斯拉來帶來多種價值，這是特斯拉在消費者驅動的汽車銷售業務之外實現多樣化經營的一種方式，但這也可能是一個反復無常的市場。隨著公用事業公司希望增加更多的清潔能源，降低煤炭和核能的使用量，儲能部署將成為一個主要的增長市場。
特斯拉公司表示，2017年第四季度部署了143兆瓦時的儲能產品，比上年同期增長了45％。并表示，去年在南澳大利亞州建造的129兆瓦時電池儲能部署將在2018年第一季度得到認可。
盡管特斯拉公司的儲能產品銷售正在大幅增長，但目前似乎利潤率相對較低。太陽能和儲能聯合部門的毛利率在2017年第四季度僅為5.5％。而2017年第三季度該部門的毛利率為25.3％。
該公司表示，其太陽能業務部門季度銷售量持續下滑，盡管第四季度應該是部署的好時機。但是并沒有達到預期目標。特斯拉公司報告說，2017年第四季度僅部署了87兆瓦的太陽能，比2017年第三季度的部署量少了20％。
特斯拉公司表示，“由于我們今年早些時候決定撤消某些銷售渠道，并將重點放在利潤率更高的項目上，導致太陽能發電產品的銷量下降。此外，太陽能部署受到供電需求不足的影響，因為客戶希望在自家的太陽能光伏發電系統中使用Powerwall電池，而在短期內這些因素可能會繼續受到影響，但我們預計今年晚些時候將恢復增長。”
特斯拉公司表示，預計其太陽能和儲能聯合部門的毛利率將在2018年有所提高，因為它使得更多的Powerpacks和Powerwalls能夠以更低的成本生產。這通常是一種增加生產和削減成本的工作方式。
目前，特斯拉的儲能部門仍處于剛剛起步階段，特斯拉目前正在開展的其他項目可能會阻礙其規模的擴展。
特斯拉公司表示，增加Model 3產品的時間表與上次的財報電話會議所說的相同。特斯拉沒有提到Model 3發展目標，但在其股東信中表示：“我們之前的Model 3的經驗教訓表明，難以準確預測特定時間點的特定生產率。”
由于設定了多個業務目標，特斯拉儲能部門的業務可能會面臨成長的痛苦。例如，為了迅速地建立南澳大利亞電池農場，特斯拉公司轉而采用了三星公司提供的電池，而不是在其在Gigafactory自己生產的電池。因此，該公司仍然面臨業務過于分散的風險。（中國儲能網獨家編譯，轉載請注明來源）
原文如下：
Tesla Plans to Triple Battery Deployments in 2018
But margins are pretty slim for the emerging energy storage division. Meanwhile, Tesla’s solar business continues to decline.
Katie Fehrenbacher February 08, 2018
Tesla said residential solar deployments have been affected by a short supply of home batteries.
While Tesla is struggling to ramp up production of its Model 3 car in the coming months, it’s got another aggressive growth target in front of it: a big production ramp-up for its energy storage products.
In Tesla’s fourth-quarter and full-year 2017 earnings report released Wednesday afternoon, the company said that it plans to at least triple the amount of energy storage capacity it deploys in 2018 compared to 2017.
“[T]he production ramp of our storage products is just as steep as with Model 3,” the company wrote in its letter to shareholders.
Tesla sells large-scale battery packs, called Powerpacks, that can be plugged into the electric grid and provide services for utilities and companies or be paired with solar and wind farms. The company also sells the smaller Powerwall unit that provides services, such as backup power, to homes and small businesses.
Tesla has long maintained that it sees big growth potential in its energy storage division, but it has prioritized its automotive business, including the Model 3. By setting aggressive growth targets for its energy storage division for the year, Tesla is showing it’s finally taking the prospect of growth in the sector more seriously.
However, the Model 3 and Tesla’s massive battery factory, the Gigafactory, will still get the bulk of the company’s capital spend for this year -- as they did last year. The automotive business also brings in much of the revenue.
For the full year of 2017, Tesla generated $11.76 billion in revenue, which was a jump from the $7 billion in revenue it generated in 2016. Just $1.12 billion of that revenue in 2017 was from its combined energy storage and solar division.
At the same time, Tesla lost $2.2 billion last year, compared to a loss of $773 million for 2016. Despite the massive negative net income, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said on the earnings call that he is “optimistic” that Tesla could be GAAP profitable soon -- “with no asterisk.”
Musk threw down the gauntlet last summer for the company's energy storage group and made a bet via Twitter that Tesla could install 100 megawatts of energy storage in South Australia in 100 days' time. Tesla achieved that goal and built the world’s biggest battery farm next to a wind farm near Jamestown in South Australia.
Tesla said in its shareholders' letter that the success of the South Australia project has led to “an increase in demand” for the Powerpack. “It’s clear that there is a huge opportunity for us in large-scale energy storage,” wrote Tesla.
In addition to the South Australia project, Tesla has also built large battery farms on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, on the island of American Samoa, in Connecticut, and on multiple sites in California.
This week Tesla said it managed to score another deal with South Australia to install up to 50,000 Powerwall batteries in homes, paired with rooftop solar panels. Tesla is also building kiosks at Home Depot and Lowe’s stores that would show off and sell the Powerwall, combined with solar panels.
The energy storage business is valuable for Tesla in a variety of ways. It’s a way for Tesla to diversify outside of the consumer-driven business of selling cars, which can be a fickle market. It’s also a major growth market in its own right as utilities look to add more clean energy and reduce their reliability on coal and nuclear.
Tesla said that in the fourth quarter of 2017 it deployed 143 megawatt-hours' worth of energy storage products, growing installations 45 percent from the same quarter the year before. The 129 megawatt-hours of energy storage built in South Australia last year will be recognized in the first quarter of 2018, Tesla said.
While Tesla’s energy storage products are seeing significant growth, they appear to have relatively low margins for the time being. The combined gross margin for the division that comprises both solar and energy storage was 5.5 percent in the fourth quarter of 2017. That’s compared to a 25.3 percent gross margin for the division in the third quarter of 2017.
Tesla’s solar division continues to decline quarter-over-quarter, though it was supposed to right-side this quarter, according to the company. However, that prediction did not come to pass. Tesla reported that in the fourth quarter of 2017 it deployed just 87 megawatts of solar, which was 20 percent less than the amount deployed in Q3 2017.
"Solar [megawatts] deployed declined as volumes continue to be impacted by our decision to close certain sales channels earlier this year and to focus on projects with better margins," Tesla stated. "In addition, solar deployments were affected by the short supply of Powerwalls for customers who wanted solar plus Powerwall in their house. While volumes may continue to be impacted by these factors over the near term, we expect growth to resume later this year."
Tesla said it expects that the gross margin of the combined energy storage and solar unit will improve as it makes more Powerpacks and Powerwalls and gets better at manufacturing them at a lower cost. That’s usually the way it works: ramp up production and cut costs.
Right now Tesla’s energy storage division is still in a fairly nascent phase. And scaling it up could be hampered by all the other efforts that Tesla is currently working on.
Tesla says its timeline to ramp up Model 3 production is the same as it was last earnings call (delayed at least twice in the past, but not a third time). Tesla hedged its Model 3 goals, though, by stating in its shareholder letter: “Our prior experience on the Model 3 ramp has demonstrated the difficulty of accurately forecasting specific production rates at specific points in time.”
With so many balls in the air, Tesla’s ramp of its energy storage division could face growing pains. For instance, in order to build the South Australian battery farm so quickly, Tesla turned to Samsung to supply the batteries instead of making them itself at the Gigafactory. The company continues to risk spreading itself too thin.
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