tesla wins giant battery contract in australia, has 100-day deadline - lithium ion battery for solar storage
SYDNEY (Reuters)-Tesla Inc (TSLA. O)
Won a contract to install the world's largest grid in Australia
Experts say scale batteries will be the touchstone for the reliability of large batteries
Scale of renewable energy
Known for its daring cars, clean energy and space exploration, Tesla CEO Elon Musk beat dozens of competitors and proposed the construction of giant 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
Musk made a promise on Twitter.
"There will be a lot of people watching this --
"Did they finish in 100 days? Did it work?
Musk told reporters in Adelaide, the capital of South Australia.
"We will make sure it does.
"If there is a power outage, the battery is designed to light up 30,000 households and will be built on a wind farm operated by Sinn, France.
Some of them are still under construction.
Musk said his company would "lose $50 million or more" if it could not deliver the project in time, but did not elaborate.
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.
In particular, it is already ahead of the rest of the country in terms of turning to wind energy, which supplies 40% of the 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.
"Dozens of companies in 10 countries, including privately owned Lyon group, work with the United StatesS.
Power company AES (AES. N)
Expressed interest in the project. [nL4N1I51XB]
The department is now waiting for Musk to deliver on his promise.
A South Korean competitor source from Tesla said: "Tesla has been telling the world that it can and will complete the project within three months and refuses to be identified due to the sensitivity of the matter.
"Confidence seems to have helped Tesla win, but it usually takes six months for such projects, so we have to wait and see if Tesla can do that," the source said . ". Lithium-
Ion batteries have been widely used since about 1991, but are mostly small-scale, such as laptops and mobile phones.
Typical lithium
150 watt ion battery can be stored
The battery is 1 kg hours, more than twice the capacity of the nickel battery.
For their supporters, the success of the masque South um experiment will be the key to greater recognition.
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