elon musk said tesla could build australia a power storage system in 100 days. now we'll see - battery energy storage

Tesla Inc.
Chief executive Elon Musk has made one of the biggest bets on the direction of energy development and how fast he can achieve it.
Musk bet a few months ago that Tesla could build a grid.
Connecting energy-
He will eat the cost within 100 days.
Now he has a chance to prove it.
Tesla announced on Friday that it will produce the world's most powerful lithium.
Ion battery storage system in South Australia.
Musk promised that the project will be completed within 100 days, otherwise it will be free of charge.
Tesla, based in Palo Alto, said it would work with France's renewable energy company Shin en to complete the project by December --
Summer in Australia is about to begin.
With a capacity of 100 MW, the system will provide more than one hour of power to more than 30,000 households at maximum output.
The company said the project will have three times the capacity of the current largest battery installation.
The largest lithium installed
Ion batteries are located on a website owned by San Diego natural gas and power company in escondition do.
California is increasingly seeing battery storage as an alternative to building more natural gas plants to meet the state's growing demand for clean energy.
By 2030, all California utilities had to produce 50% of electricity from clean energy, and some lawmakers hoped to raise the task to 100% by 2045.
Many believe that energy storage is the key to achieving national goals while ensuring that the lights are on.
This will be the highest power battery system in the world, only 3 times.
Rocks in Australia! !
1. last September.
After a storm damaged key infrastructure, 7 million residents in South Australia lost power and more power outages occurred earlier this year.
To prevent further power outages, the South Australian government seeks renewable energy solutions.
Musk bet his company can get a grid
South Australia's connected battery system was installed and worked within 100 days to help ease the power outage and shuttled back and forth on Twitter with Australian software billionaire Mike CannonBrookes.
Musk said at a press conference on Friday that if Tesla fails to complete the system in time, it could end up losing $50 million.
The specific cost of the project was not disclosed.
Although Musk is known for promoting his products, his promise has not been fulfilled --
Robert McCullough, an energy consultant who runs Oregon, says it's far-fetched.
Research by McCullough.
In January, Tesla released one of the world's largest energy sources.
Storage facilities in cooperation with Southern California Edison.
Using 400 Tesla PowerPack units, the facility can store enough energy to power 2,500 homes.
The storage project is completed within 90 days.
"The good news about the device is that it's modular," McCullough said . ".
"You can install 100 if you can install one.
Musk said at a press conference,
The future direction is to expand the scale of battery applications.
"I do think this is an example of what the world will see," Musk said . ".
An important step in the development of energy storage will fundamentally change the way the California and national power grids operate.
Gas plants are seen as bridges to the future, in the future, carbonfree, clean-
Energy sources such as solar and wind provide all power.
Natural gas power plants can increase rapidly to meet periods of high demand, or to provide an ongoing supply of electricity, unlike solar and wind energy that relies on variable natural resources. But higher-
Low efficiency-
The source of costs for energy storage means reducing demand for fossil-fuel natural gas plants that emit less pollution but still cause greenhouse gas emissions.
State regulators have approved three new gas plants in the Los Angeles Basin, mainly to ensure adequate power supply when solar and wind fields in the desert do not provide the required power
Whether it's because of the lack of wind, the cloud cover, or the destruction of power lines due to natural disasters.
But the California grid operator, the Los Angeles Hydro Division and the California Independent System Operator, is reviewing the cleaning-
Energy alternatives to several other gas plants.
Sometimes, there is a lot of solar energy produced in California, and system operators have to pay other states for the purchase of solar energy. Clean-
Energy storage is the answer, according to energy supporters.
Ravi Manghani, energy storage director at GTM Research, said Musk's latest project is uniquely designed to meet the needs of Australia to replace the loss of power plants, such as during a power outage in September.
While the battery system will be the most powerful system in the world, it can only run for more than an hour at 100 MW, compared to the smaller system installed by the San Diego Gas and Power Company, the system has a power of 30 MW, which can power fewer homes but last up to four hours.
Tesla's system can also provide longer power to fewer families, but it cannot reach the highest power level.
"It's like operating a smartphone in power-safe mode instead of playing on YouTube videos," Manghani said . ".
McCullough pointed out that hydropower dams have been used in the western United States to store energy in a similar way.
However, battery storage reduces the size of the project and takes them to the population center.
Tesla's project in Australia is estimated to cost $50 million, about 46% less than other battery cost forecasts.
"The bottom line is that we are close to prime time," McCullough said . ". makeda. easter@latimes. com, ivan. penn@latimes.
For Elon Musk's Tesla, ivanlpenn is also a bad week.
This is a good week for short sellers. With Elon Musk's Tesla starting to produce type 3 Ram Emanuel, Elon Musk designed for O'Haredowntown high-
Speed rail Update: 3 p. m.
: Additional analysis was updated in this article.
The article was originally published at 11: 05. m.