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Re:South Australia teams with Tesla, Neoen to build world's ... by pongogogo on Friday July 07, 2017 @02:45AM (#14716559)
Do you need multiple batteries though to really stabilise the flow? I.e. these look like they will be right at the point of power generation, guessing that the bulk of inhabitants will actually be in Adelaide, why not put the batteries there after you have suffered the lossiness of transmission? Directly in people's homes would also probably be more effective...
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Re:South Australia teams with Tesla, Neoen to build world's ... by nextweek2 on Friday July 07, 2017 @10:54AM (#14718778)
I'd disagree with having batteries in people's homes. They produce heat, require space (which has a cost), require maintenance and an inverter, they are not fault tolerant, they'd be a massive risk to people in the event of a fire (would you like to be a fireman going into a home that had a massive Li-ion battery in?).

A better place would be at the generation source with substation batteries for smoothing out blips.

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Re:South Australia teams with Tesla, Neoen to build world's ... by manicdee on Friday July 07, 2017 @02:57AM (#14716616)
The losses will happen somewhere, and the power is coming from the wind farm anyway. Combining grid interconnect with what is already there probably makes the power engineering easier.
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Re:South Australia teams with Tesla, Neoen to build world's ... by renesd on Friday July 07, 2017 @03:35AM (#14716745)
Also Australia is one of the most expensive places on the planet - in the urban centers. They already have space near the wind farm for very cheap. As a bonus you don't have a giant Samsung Galaxy situation near so many people.
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