Hornsdale Power Reserve (Tesla batteries 100MW/129MWh, to be expanded to 150MW/194 MWh)
There has been a lot of noise about how inadequate batteries are for contributing to the transformation of energy from fossil fuel-based power to adoption of renewables. Much of that discussion revolves around how batteries can’t provide enough power to keep the grid going when the sun goes down or the wind stops blowing. This completely misrepresents and underestimates the role of batteries in the new low carbon world. Here I use recent data from the Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) grid scale batteries