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Re:Australia has enough solar, wind storage in pipeline to g... by SEJeff on Thursday March 21, 2019 @10:49AM (#19452950)
South Australia has rolling blackouts in the summers when the coal "peaker plants" come online, and it takes 30-45 minutes in some cases for them to come online during a surge in demand due to blackouts. The government turned to Tesla to install (at the time) the biggest industrial battery in the world at 100MW / 129MWh and it is really working. Here is some info on it with some details (electrek is a Tesla fanboi site, but the reporting is accurate):

https://electrek.co/2018/09/24/tesla-powerpack-battery-austr...

Re:Australia has enough solar, wind storage in pipeline to g... by SEJeff on Thursday March 21, 2019 @06:08PM (#19457851)
Not really sure why something that adds context to the conversation is downvoted.