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Elon Musk has arrived in Adelaide to announce that his company, Tesla, will build the world’s largest lithium ion battery for South Australia.
The historic agreement between French renewable energy provider Neoen, the South Australian government, and Tesla will put South Australia at the forefront of global energy storage technology.
The 100MW/129MWh battery, paired with Neoen’s Hornsdale wind farm, 230km north of the capital, Adelaide will have the ability to power 50,000 houses.
His arrival follows a bet he made on Twitter with Atlassian co-founder Mike Cannon-Brookes in March, that Tesla could install an operation battery system that would solve South Australia’s energy problems in 100 days.
He said that if he was unsuccessful the batteries would be free.
South Australia was left without power — some parts for days — in September last year after the state was smashed by storms that brought wind gusts exceeding 120km/h.
It was later found to be largely due to unplanned power plant or transmission outages, but it triggered a political row at state and federal level over energy security.
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