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December 28, 2016

Tesla's new Powerwalls pop up in Vermont

MIDDLETOWN SPRINGS, Vt. (AP) — Rhonda “Honey” Phillips keeps her own cows and garden at her small, hillside homestead, and now is pushing self-sufficiency in a more high-tech direction. This year, she installed new solar panels just downhill from her modest house and hung a Tesla Powerwall backup battery on her basement wall, to charge up when it's sunny and draw down when it isn't.

“My grandfather used to say, ‘Whatever you can see is what you should be taking care of,'” said Phillips, 57, whose family has been in Vermont since the 1700s. With shorter winters and hotter temperatures in the summer, Phillips is convinced she's seeing climate change.


 
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