Tesla’s massive battery in Australia was paid up to $1000/MWh to absorb excess electricity
Teslas big project in Australia had some good news in the last weeks, where it hold the grid up when it needet it in some miliseconds where another power plant would have taken 1h to get going.
Now another good news from the project, it could load itself with excess energy from the grid and get payed for it too.
When an electricity grid has to much energy, this could cause blackouts too and it is crutial to hold the grid in a nice level in between.
With batteries like these this is not a problem anymore.
Sure, we need some more but there is a good example what these systems could do for the grid and for the owner.
This system got 1000 AUD per megawatthour and could sell this energy at another time too :)
This is awesome.
I hope there will be many more systems like this near renewables like wind and solar as distributed small smartgrids to stabalize the whole grid.
I hope the terrific outages in australia are in the past now with this and other projects like that.
This could be a gamechanger for the whole planet and I am glad that Tesla is the company wich started it.
I hope you enjoy these topics, for more insights the original link to this news is unter this post.
In best regards Daniel
I have a question to ask @d4rk3n3mi3. You said,
"When an electricity grid has too much energy, this could cause blackouts too ". Please how is this so? I also major in power system and have never come across such before. Please explain, thanks!
I am not an electrician but I try to tell you what I understand.
The grid has a frequency and this is 50hz at normal level.
When there is to little the frequency drops and when there is to much it rises.
Until a point this is normal, under 49,9HZ they start some plants to stabalize it and when it is to high the grid needs to shut down some generators or find someone who takes the overproduces energy.
In both ways it can cause a blackout.
I couldnt find a article in english and this problem is much easier to handle as to little energy but it could take the grid to its limit.
I hope this was the answer you hoped for and I would be happy to learn more about this.
Thanks @d4rk3n3mi3 for the insight. The question has been answered now. You actually made it clear by making a reference to the effects of frequency regulation. Frequency must be monitored and regulated to avoid system collapse. There are two different frequencies, 50Hhz and 60Hz.
In the UK, most of Europe, Africa, Australia, Southern South America, most of Asia, and Russia, the frequency of the alternating current in household electrical outlets is 50 Hz .
In North America and parts of Japan, on the other hand, a standard frequency of 60 Hz is used.
Thanks once again! I am following you for more educative posts.