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davezawadi:

Surely this article is joking. a 44 MW help when GW are connected is not going to do much at all. I don't know what the total consumption in SA was, but probably not all that much. This is only about 1000 cars worth of battery, and it saved the day? I suggest it was the industrial load shedding of aluminium heating which really did the trick.

 

Another article says it's 100MW, storing 129MWh, but they are planning on upgrading it.  But that is just one battery bank.  You wouldn't try to run the entire country off one power station, and one battery bank wouldn't serve the whole of the UK either. https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/huge-tesla-battery-in-south-australia-primed-for-big-upgrade-20191119-p53byo.html

davezawadi:

Surely this article is joking. a 44 MW help when GW are connected is not going to do much at all. I don't know what the total consumption in SA was, but probably not all that much. This is only about 1000 cars worth of battery, and it saved the day? I suggest it was the industrial load shedding of aluminium heating which really did the trick.

 

Another article says it's 100MW, storing 129MWh, but they are planning on upgrading it.  But that is just one battery bank.  You wouldn't try to run the entire country off one power station, and one battery bank wouldn't serve the whole of the UK either. https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/huge-tesla-battery-in-south-australia-primed-for-big-upgrade-20191119-p53byo.html