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Re:Tesla big battery outsmarts lumbering coal units by caf on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @09:05PM (#15966421)
Market settings in the Australian NEM mean that generators tend to set their governors with very wide deadbands.

http://www.escosa.sa.gov.au/ArticleDocuments/1047/20170208-I...

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Re:Tesla big battery outsmarts lumbering coal units by throwaway7645 on Monday December 25, 2017 @10:46AM (#16004491)
Interesting...sounds bad for reliability. Do you know why that is allowed?
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Re:Tesla big battery outsmarts lumbering coal units by caf on Monday December 25, 2017 @07:02PM (#16006281)
The requirements were relaxed because the intention was to have an entirely market-driven mechanism for frequency control. The system reliability impacts were an unintended consequence.
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