Tesla big battery outsmarts lumbering coal units

Re:Tesla big battery outsmarts lumbering coal units by vvanders on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @04:57PM (#15964761)

Something that was interesting and buried down in the comments is that they're supposedly contracted for 35MW of fast-response power to maintain grid stability based on engineering of current generators/etc.

If that's true then Tesla is already providing 1/5th of that capacity today.

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Re:Tesla big battery outsmarts lumbering coal units by greglindahl on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @05:00PM (#15964787)

I think the reason that the battery put out the amount it did was that that was size of the local shortfall, 1,000 miles away from the problem. You can see that at other times, the battery has put out its full 100MW rating.

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