South Australia statewide electricity blackout. 10

[GregLocock]

Musk's battery will keep things going for 20 minutes if the interconnector goes down again. I'm not saying it's a bad thing, but it isn't even the icing on the cake, it's the sprinkles on top of the icing on the cake. Ideal political solution really, doesn't cost much, doesn't do much, sounds cute. If there was a very temporary interruption they may be able to provide a stable synchronous source so the windmills can get back onto the grid. Batteries are good for that. AEMO still predict outages starting from Jan 16 2018.

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[itsmoked]

Good points Greg.

I'd forgotten the monster blackout was actually caused by dropped lines and not some short-tern shortfall.

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[dik]

It may be possible to 'pull everything non essential off' to extend the battery a bit...

Dik

 

[JohnRBaker]

The battery would also allow for the controlled shutdown of interruption-sensitive systems as well as providing time for organizations like hospitals and other emergency providers to switch seamlessly to standby generators.

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[GregLocock]

dik, well let's see, yesterday SA peaked at 2200 MW demand. Musk battery is good for around 100 MW for one hour. The interconnector is around 700 MW. I guess every little helps, but it certainly isn't overkill.

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[IRstuff]

Such a battery could soften the load shedding, which often is worse than whatever initially causes a power interruption.

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[dik]

FYI
from the BBC, "The 100-megawatt battery, built by Tesla, was officially activated on Friday. It had in fact provided some power since Thursday due to demand caused by local hot weather."

link:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-42190358