On Friday, Tesla promptly opened the world's largest lithium-ion battery to provide power supply for Australia's crumbling grid on the first day of the summer, meeting Elon Musk's promise to build or provide it free within 100 days.
"South Australia is now ahead of the world in terms of schedulable renewable energy," state council Prime Minister Jay weserill said at the official launch of the Hornsdale wind farm owned by French private company neen
Tesla won construction 129 in July-
With megawatt-hour batteries in South Australia, wind power is growing much faster than in other parts of the country, but has suffered a series of power outages in the past 18 months.
In a political debate, opponents of the state's renewable energy push believe that in a country that still relies on fossil fuels (mainly coal), batteries are a "Hollywood solution"
It's electricity thirty.
However, supporters say it will help stabilize a country's power grid, which now gets more than power from wind, but needs help when the wind slows down.
"Storage can respond in one second.
It can solve these stability problems very quickly without having to resort to large power plants, "said Praveen Kathpal, vice president of AES Energy, a loss-making bidder for manufacturing batteries.
Emphasize the hope of the industry for takeout
In terms of battery storage, Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk visited a site about 225 kilometers (141 miles) north of Adelaide, the capital, on July, saying the battery was "just the beginning ".
The state has not yet revealed how much it will pay Tesla.
Weatherill blacked out the entire state after a big storm last year and raced to shore up the state grid with a $510 ($286) plan, including ordering big batteries and installing diesel-
Fuel turbines.
AES's Kathpal, also chairman of the American Energy Storage Association, said South Australia's commitment to energy storage is an important step for other members of the industry.
"We think this will really accelerate Australia's absorption of energy storage," he said . ".