The Wharton Current
The Wharton Current
The Wharton Current
Scaling Storage in an Era of Explosive Load Growth — Colby Hastings, Senior Director of Residential Energy, Tesla
30 minutes Posted Jan 28, 2026 at 4:58 pm.
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We sat down with Colby Hastings, Senior Director of Residential Energy at Tesla, to unpack how battery storage and distributed energy resources are reshaping the grid. Drawing on nearly a decade at Tesla, Colby walks us through the evolution of Tesla Energy—from the early days of Powerwall and grid-scale storage to today’s Megapack deployments and large-scale virtual power plants.