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Giant Tesla Battery In Australia Earns A Million Bucks In a Few Days (electrek.co)

Long-time Slashdot reader drinkypoo writes: Last week, Neoen's and Tesla's massive battery was paid up to $1000/MWh to charge itself and now it could have earned up to 1 million AUD in the last few days by selling the power back to the grid to cover a coal plant outage. Unlike other forms of power storage, battery systems can be switched between states (charging, discharging, or idle) effectively instantly, which permits a stabilizing effect on the grid.
"What we are seeing here," writes Fred Lambert at Electrek.co, "is the Powerpack system enabling Neoen to sell electricity at up to $14,000 AUD per MWh and charging itself at almost no cost during overproduction."

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  1. Re:Or just cut back on pointless Russian bashing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The Deep State was alive and well in 2015.
    They're alive now and in panic mode.

    https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-01-28/fbi-releases-docs-claiming-rt-founder-beat-himself-death-his-hotel-room
     
    No matter how much the Arabs who now own Slashdot (front corporation Bizx, LLC) force the fake editors to spam anti-Russian anti-conservative stories, the trugh DOES come out.