Oceania & Pacific / Commercial & demonstration

Ta’u SolarCity Tesla Microgrid in American Samoa

Organizations, planners, suppliers, equipment, controls, and reported system specifications—with source-level citations.

CoveragePartial public record
Named organizations2
System facts4
Sources reviewed3
Last researched2026-07-19

Ta’u SolarCity Tesla Microgrid in American Samoa is catalogued as a commercial & demonstration system in Oceania & Pacific.

Research status
Operational
Historical classification
Commercial
Reported capacity
See component specifications
Coordinates
-14.22564, -169.43663
Evidence note: “Every company” cannot be proven from public material alone. This page lists every organization found in the recovered record and reviewed sources, preserves unknown roles, and explicitly marks undisclosed controller or equipment details.

Project delivery

Who was involved in Ta’u SolarCity Tesla Microgrid in American Samoa?

2 publicly identified organizations. Where a recovered source named a participant without explaining its work, the role remains explicitly unspecified.

Organization

SolarCity

Publicly named participant; role not specified in the recovered record [1]

Organization

Tesla

Publicly named participant; role not specified in the recovered record [1]

System evidence

Reported capacity and specifications

Values can describe different project phases or components. Source citations are attached to each figure so discrepancies remain visible.

KW Solar
1400 [1]
Storage
6 MWH [1]

Controls and hardware

Equipment and controller details

Manufacturer and model are shown only when a source names them. Generic descriptions are not converted into guessed product assignments.

No controller or equipment model was found in the reviewed public sources. This is a disclosure gap, not evidence that the project lacks coordinated controls.

Recovered detail

Additional technical notes

Concise system facts recovered from the historical project record. Treat these as historical unless a newer primary source confirms them.

  • Storage

    6 megawatt hours of battery storage from 60 Tesla Powerpacks [1]

  • Generation

    1.4 megawatts of solar generation capacity from SolarCity and Tesla [1]

Provenance

3 sources

Primary owner, government, university, supplier, and engineering sources are preferred. Archived references preserve claims whose original pages moved or disappeared.

  1. [1]
    Recovered Microgrid Projects record

    Internet Archive · Archived source · captured 2021-04-20

  2. [2]
    Postcard From the Future? Ta’u Island Ditches Diesel With Tesla-SolarCity Microgrid

    microgridmedia.com · Archived source · captured 2021-04-20

  3. [3]
    Island in the Sun

    blog.solarcity.com · Archived source · captured 2021-04-20