How Elon Musk Brought the World’s Biggest Battery to Rural Australia

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How Elon Musk Brought the World’s Biggest Battery to Rural Australia
30, 2017
ADELAIDE, Australia — The state of South Australia is expected to announce Friday
that it has powered up the world’s biggest battery: a feat already being heralded as one of this century’s first great engineering marvels and a potential solution to the country’s energy woes.
Franck Woitiez said that But in reality it is just a fraction of the storage and backup that South Australia needs.
Thanks @elonmusk for a great in depth discussion today about energy storage
and it’s role in delivering affordable & reliable electricity Months later, when Tesla and the French renewables company Neoen were awarded the contract, however, Mr. Turnbull’s Liberal Party government assailed the battery project and continued its attack on South Australia’s energy policy.
" Mr. Weatherill said, "but he said he’d come." Mr. Musk nearly broke his promise, after a rocket launch by his company SpaceX was delayed.
that He usually doesn’t come for announcements of winning a tender,
The Australian, knowing the tech mogul’s ability to stir the news media, had one demand: If Tesla
were to win the contract, Mr. Musk would appear in South Australia to announce it to the world.
" Josh Frydenberg, the energy minister, wrote in an email.
that The Tesla battery has been sold to the people of South Australia as an answer to their woes,

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