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It's been about 100 days since Elon Musk wagered he could solve South Australias power problems. It was all the rage in the news at the time. Did it ever get installed? Did it solve the problem?
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It's been about 100 days since Elon Musk wagered he could solve South Australias power problems. It was all the rage in the news at the time. Did it ever get installed? Did it solve the problem?
Lance, my understanding is that South Australia invited an initial round of submissions for the project, and then invited a second round of proposals from a short list of finalists, which included Tesla.
I am not sure if the finalists' bids have been made yet (f not they will be very soon) but I believe South Australia is still targeting installation before their next summer (~December 2017), so I expect they will make a decision before too long. More details are here: South Australia seeks battery storage proposals from short-list
How is LNG seen down there? Up here our government wants to build the largest LNG plant in the world for export, but people say in the media nobody in the world really wants the stuff any more. The market has collapsed since it was first proposed years ago.Australia could be referred to as the energy Superpower, about to become the world's largest exporter of LNG, it has an abundance of Coal (that should stay in the ground), solar, wind, hydro and potential tidal power, yet we have high electricity prices and politicians that have spent the last ten years bickering over the best direction to take. Australia also has one of the highest, if not the highest up takes of home rooftop solar due to the combination of high grid electricity prices and very low home solar cost, a fully installed 5kw system can be purchased for as low as $3200 Australian, basically less than 3 years to recover the cost, maybe 10% of Australians could identify Tesla as a car maker but a far higher percentage identify Tesla as the battery storage company, and they're keen to link a battery to the solar panels and stick it to the power companies.
I haven't heard the latest for SA, I hope Red Flow an all Aussie venture gets a crack at it. A government contract like that would be a great revenue boost and allow competition in the marketplace.
Part of the problem is that the US which use to be a natural gas importer overbuilt shale gas extraction during the last boom. They are now overcapacity, and my understanding is that these natural gas sources loose money but that they loose less money operating compared to being shut down.
How is LNG seen down there? Up here our government wants to build the largest LNG plant in the world for export, but people say in the media nobody in the world really wants the stuff any more. The market has collapsed since it was first proposed years ago.
Blog post from Tesla about it: Tesla Powerpack to Enable Large Scale Sustainable Energy to South Australia
Article on Gizmodo: All The Details On Tesla's Giant Australian Battery
Huge reserves of offshore gas, large amounts being shipped to Asia, sadly local supply and pricing is a political football with eastern Australian residents getting the biggest kicking.
I was wondering how the production would strain Tesla's resources. Turns out not so much.