tesla wins battery contract in australia, has 100-day deadline - small lithium ion battery
Tesla Inc.
Won a contract to install the world's largest grid in Australia
The scale battery, experts say, will be the touchstone for the reliability of large batteries.
Scale of renewable energy
Tesla CEO Elon Musk, known for his bold approach to cars, clean energy and space exploration, defeated dozens of competitors and proposed the construction of huge lithium-
As an emergency battery-
South Australian power-
A state in trouble due to a power outage
But according to the agreement, Tesla must deliver 100-
Within 100 days of signing the contract, the MW battery will be used free of charge
Sir's promise
Musk said on Twitter.
"There will be a lot of people who will look at this: 'Did they finish it in 100 days? Did it work? ’” Mr.
Musk told reporters in Adelaide, the capital of South Australia.
"We will make sure it does.
The project may include hundreds of smaller battery modules connected and "very doable", although 100-
Sanka Das Gupta, CEO of Canadian lithium, said the deadline for the day could be tight
Electrovaya, supplier of ion batteries.
If there is a power outage, the battery is designed to light up 30,000 homes and will be built on a wind farm operated by Sinn, France, part of which is still under construction. Mr.
Musk said that if the project could not be delivered in time, his company would spend "$50 million or more" without detailed instructions ".
This will be the biggest lithium.
Ion battery storage projects in the world, more than 80 MW
Tesla batteries were also built in California for an hour.
South Australia has decided to close its coal in the past three years.
It depends on wind, solar and natural gas.
It is already ahead of the rest of the country in turning to wind energy, which supplies 40% of its energy.
The move has been praised by environmental activists, but since there is no way to store enough energy when the wind does not blow, the state is prone to power outages.
South Australia 1, September.
When the grid was overloaded and collapsed, 7 million residents did not have electricity, some of them for up to two weeks.
The purpose of the battery is to solve the problem of insufficient storage. “Cost-
Efficient storage of electricity is the only problem that prevents us from getting all our power from wind and solar, "said Ian Lowe, a science professor at Griffith University in Australia.
"This project is to show large-scale storage.
"Lithium environment works with the United States, dozens of companies from 10 countries, including privately owned Lyon GroupS.
Electric Power Corporation of America
Expressed interest in the project.
Now, the industry is waiting to see Mr.
Musk can deliver on his promise.
"Confidence seems to have helped Tesla win, but it usually takes six months for such a project, so we have to wait and see if Tesla can do that, A source from Tesla's South Korean rival said he declined to be named because of the sensitivity of the matter.
At the end of last year, it took Tesla about three months to provide 20-
California utilities said it installed the MW energy storage system into a substation owned by Southern California Edison.
Tesla's technology is very mature.
This is very clear, "said Haresh Kamath, a battery researcher at the California electric power Institute.
"This is not a moon landing. ”Lithium-
Ion batteries have been widely used since about 1991, but are mostly small-scale, such as laptops and mobile phones.
For their supporters, they have been pushing for larger use for a long time.
The South Australia experiment in Musk will be the key to greater acceptance.
Adrian Griffin said: "In order for lithium technology to take off on a global scale, they clearly need storage capacity to ensure that renewable energy can deliver services 24 hours a day, seven days a week, "Geologists specializing in lithium extraction