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Tesla’s Massive Virtual Power Plant in South Australia Roars Back to Life

Tesla’s Massive Virtual Power Plant in South Australia Roars Back to Life

Tesla‘s plans to build the world’s largest virtual power plant in South Australia will proceed after all. The $800 million (US $634 million) project—struck in February by Tesla CEO Elon Musk and former South Australian Premier Jay Weatherill—involves installing solar panels and batteries on 50,000 homes to function as an interconnected power plant. But the […]

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    World’s Biggest Solar + Battery Farm Coming to Australia

    World’s Biggest Solar + Battery Farm Coming to Australia

    A massive solar and battery farm is being built in South Australia’s Riverland region. If everything goes to plan, the plant will be running by the end of 2017 and will be the largest such system in the world, Brisbane-based renewable energy developer and investor Lyon Group announced. The Riverland plant consists of 330MW of […]