Tesla , Files To Become an <br />Electricity Provider, in Texas.<br />According to an application filed <br />with the Public Utility Commission <br />in Texas this month.<br />the company wants to sell power directly to consumers.<br />According to 'Texas Monthly,' the application was submitted by a subsidiary of Tesla called Tesla Energy Ventures.<br />Tesla has already started a big battery build in Angleton, Texas.<br />The goal is to connect a 100 megawatt energy storage system to the grid.<br />The company has previously built utility-scale energy storage systems around the world.<br />but those systems have only ever served to help other companies. .<br />If approved, this would be Tesla's first time being a retail electricity provider.<br />The move could prove beneficial to the state, which operates on a separate grid than the rest of the country.<br />This made it impossible for other states to transfer power to Texas when it suffered a blackout crisis last winter.<br />This made it impossible for other states to transfer power to Texas when it suffered a blackout crisis last winter