[lbo-talk] Tesla's mega-battery project in Australia

[Marv Gandall]

The world’s largest lithium-ion battery, backing up a major power system in Australia, “appears to be far exceeding expectations”, according to a report in the Washington Post. 

The Post described the Hornsdale Power Reserve as “the biggest proof-of-concept yet that batteries such as Tesla’s can help mitigate one of renewable energy’s most persistent problems: how to use it when the sun isn’t shining or the wind isn’t blowing”, . 

Tesla’s founder, Elon Musk, offered to install the largely untested technology after South Australia suffered a widespread power blackout which shut down Adelaide and the rest of the state in September, 2016.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/12/26/teslas-enormous-battery-in-australia-just-weeks-old-is-already-responding-to-outages-in-record-time/?mod=djemwhatsnews