Tesla Big Battery Outsmarts Lumbering Coal Units After Loy Yang Trips (reneweconomy.com.au)

The Tesla big battery is having a crucial impact on Australia's electricity market, far beyond the South Australia grid where it was expected to time shift a small amount of wind energy and provide network services and emergency back-up in case of a major problem. From a report: Last Thursday, one of the biggest coal units in Australia, Loy Yang A 3, tripped without warning at 1.59am, with the sudden loss of 560MW and causing a slump in frequency on the network. What happened next has stunned electricity industry insiders and given food for thought over the near to medium term future of the grid, such was the rapid response of the Tesla big battery to an event that happened nearly 1,000km away. Even before the Loy Yang A unit had finished tripping, the 100MW/129MWh had responded, injecting 7.3MW into the network to help arrest a slump in frequency that had fallen below 49.80Hertz.

Comments

It is getting a little old

[NEDHead]

When is Musk going to stop making big promises and then following through?

He sure is a bad politician.

Re:AC frequency

[Anonymous Coward]

Also, in Australia, electricity flows out of the negative post on the battery, through the attached circuit, and into the positive post

Whole corn in your poop?

[Anonymous Coward]

Then you should chew your food better, or if you prepared it, you should grind the corn before putting into the food, as a courtesy to your guests.

Corn kernels are made of cellulose, and the human body can't digest cellulose. That's why when you eat whole corn, it comes out in your doodie.

Most corn in the US is also GMO (Genetically Modified Organism), and intellectual property of (c) Monstanto Corporation (tm)(R), the creators of Agent Orange which have injured our US service members.

Re: AC frequency

[Anne Thwacks]

The whoosh is strong with this one!