Tesla's Massive Virtual Power Plant in South Australia Roars Back to Life
25 May 2018
Renewable Energy
Powerwall residential battery with solar panels. Tesla
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.
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But the plan was nearly scrapped under the new state government headed by Liberal leader Steven Marshall, who was elected in March. Marshall's government had their own plan to offer discounts on battery storage for 40,000 homes.
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In a happy twist, Energy Minister Dan van Holst Pellekaan announced at the Australian Energy Conference this week the newly elected government would proceed with both plans.
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"It's very important to be clear about this—we are honoring the existing commitments around the Tesla virtual power plant (VPP)," he said, as quoted by Australia's <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-05-24/tesla-battery-plan-gets-green-light-from-sa-liberals/9794486" target="_blank">ABC News</a>.
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Van Holst Pellekaan, who met with Tesla soon after he was sworn in, added that he wants South Australia to become a world leader in home battery installation.
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By doubling down, the state will eventually emerge with some 100,000 household batteries, or more than one in ten homes, <a href="https://reneweconomy.com.au/sa-liberals-vow-to-continue-energy-transition-go-big-in-batteries-93367/" target="_blank">Renew Economy</a> noted.
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<span></span>"We'll show the world how the mass adoption of home batteries can and will work," he said. "This is a complicated task—I don't think that anyone has attempted to do what we're about to do at this scale relative to population and market size."
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The virtual power plant involves installing a 5-kilowatt solar system and a Powerwall 2 battery on roughly 50,000 low-income and social housing units across the state over the next four years. The setup would be installed at no charge to the households and financed through the sale of electricity. Participants would save an estimated 30 percent on their power bills.
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"My government has already delivered the world's biggest battery, now we will deliver the world's largest virtual power plant," Weatherill said then. "We will use people's homes as a way to generate energy for the South Australian grid, with participating households benefiting with significant savings in their energy bills.
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Tesla
<a href="https://phys.org/news/2018-02-tesla-australia-homes-power.html" target="_blank">told</a> AFP that the virtual power plant would have 250 megawatts of solar energy and 650 megawatt hours of battery storage.
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<span></span>"At key moments, the virtual power plant could provide as much capacity as a large gas turbine or coal power plant," the company added.
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Van Holst Pellekaan also said at the Australian Energy Conference that the trial phase, which starts with installing home energy systems on 1,100 public housing properties, is currently proceeding.
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Tesla's Giant Australian Battery Saved Consumers $35 Million in Four Months
14 May 2018
Renewable Energy
Tesla's Powerpack battery system in South Australia is charged by a nearby wind farm. Tesla
Since switching on in December, Tesla's massive battery in South Australia has already drastically lowered prices in the region's frequency and ancillary services market (FCAS) and has taken a major share of that market, Renew Economy reported.
During Australian Energy Week, McKinsey and Co. partner Godart van Gendt boasted about the stunning efficiency of the 100-megawatt Powerpack system, which is connected to Neoen's Hornsdale wind farm.
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"In the first four months of operations of the Hornsdale Power Reserve, the frequency ancillary services prices went down by 90 percent, so that's 9-0 per cent," van Gendt said Thursday, as quoted by Renew Economy.
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"And the 100 megawatt battery has achieved over 55 percent of the FCAS revenues in South Australia. So it's 2 percent of the capacity in South Australia achieving 55 percent of the revenues in South Australia."
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The Australian Energy Market Operator calls upon the FCAS to provide back-up energy whenever generators fail or fall short. This service has typically relied upon costly gas generators and steam turbines, with electricity rates up to $14,000 per megawatt during these outages.
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But Tesla's big battery, which was
<a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/tesla-worlds-largest-battery-2512145319.html">designed</a> to feed South Australia's unstable power grid, has changed the game. Whenever it has needed to discharge its power to the grid, costs have hovered as low as $270 per megawatt, as <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/feb/06/how-teslas-big-battery-is-bringing-australias-gas-cartel-to-heel" target="_blank">The Guardian</a> noted.
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As Renew Economy noted, "various estimates have put the cost savings to consumers from the FCAS market alone at around $35 million, just in the first four months of its operation."
</p><p>What's more, the Powerpack system has responded much quicker to power outages (<a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/tesla-australia-battery-2520491667.html" target="_blank">within milliseconds</a>), with the benefit of no greenhouse gas emissions.
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World's Largest Virtual Power Plant Coming to Australia in Deal With Tesla
05 February 2018
Renewable Energy
A home with a Powerwall 2 and solar panels. Tesla
South Australia—already home to the world's largest battery—will soon host the world's largest virtual solar plant under a landmark plan from Tesla CEO Elon Musk and the state government.
The plan involves installing a 5-kilowatt solar system and a Tesla Powerwall 2 battery on roughly 50,000 homes across the state over the next four years. The setup will be installed at no charge to the households and financed through the sale of electricity.
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The entire system will function as an interconnected power plant all while cutting power bills for participants by an estimated 30 percent.
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"My government has already delivered the world's biggest battery, now we will deliver the world's largest virtual power plant," South Australian Premier Jay Weatherill said.
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"We will use people's homes as a way to generate energy for the South Australian grid, with participating households benefiting with significant savings in their energy bills."
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The trial phase, which has already commenced, will start with 1,100 public housing properties. After the trial period, another 24,000 public housing properties will receive the systems before opening up to other South Australian households.
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Weatherill
<a href="https://twitter.com/JayWeatherill/status/960267973511360512" target="_blank">tweeted</a> Sunday than 6,500 South Australian households have already signed up. Those who want to participate in the program can register their interest <a href="http://ourenergyplan.sa.gov.au/virtual-power-plant" target="_blank">here</a>.
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South Australia, in contrast to the pro-<a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/tag/coal">coal</a> federal government, has invested heavily in <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/renewable-energy/" target="_blank">renewable energy</a> and battery storage in recent decades. Last year, Musk famously made—<a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/tesla-worlds-largest-battery-2512145319.html" target="_blank">and fulfilled</a>—a bet that he could help solve the state's power woes by building a massive battery farm in less than 100 days.
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Tesla
<a href="https://phys.org/news/2018-02-tesla-australia-homes-power.html" target="_blank">told</a> AFP that the virtual power plant would have 250 megawatts of solar energy and 650 megawatt hours of battery storage.
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"At key moments, the virtual power plant could provide as much capacity as a large gas turbine or coal power plant," the company added.
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The rollout will be supported with a Aus$2 million (US$1.6 million) grant and a Aus$30 million (US$23.8 million) loan from the taxpayer-funded Renewable Technology Fund.
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Learn more about the program here:
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A rendering of the Aurora Solar Thermal Plant. SolarReserve
South Australia—home to the world's largest battery—is one step closer to also hosting the world's largest solar thermal power plant following developmental approval from the state government.
California-based SolarReserve is behind the $650 million, 150-megawatt "Aurora" project that will be located 30 kilometers north of Port Augusta.
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Solar thermal plants are different from traditional photovoltaic panels on rooftops and solar farms. These plants, also known as <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/tag/concentrated-solar-power" target="_blank">concentrated solar</a> plants, consists of a large field of moveable mirrors, or heliostats, that concentrate the sun's rays to a central tower to heat up salt. This molten salt then produces superheated steam to drive a generator's turbines.
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The advantage of this type of power plant is how it can store several hours of energy, allowing for power usage when needed. Such a plant is crucial for South Australia, a state beset by frequent power outages.
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<span></span>South Australia, in contrast to the pro-coal federal government, has invested heavily in <a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/renewable-energy/">renewable energy</a> in recent decades. Last month, the state switched on a 100-megawatt battery storage farm that <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/tag/tesla" target="_blank">Tesla</a> CEO <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/tag/elon-musk" target="_blank">Elon Musk</a> famously built <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/tesla-worlds-largest-battery-2512145319.html" target="_blank">in less than 100 days</a> to help solve the state's energy woes. Musk's battery already proved itself late last month after responding to power outages within milliseconds.</p>
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<p>SolarReserve—the same company that operates the 110-megawatt <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/worlds-first-24-7-solar-power-plant-powers-75-000-homes-1891177555.html" target="_blank">Crescent Dunes</a> Solar Energy Plant in Nevada, the world's first utility-scale solar thermal power plant—<a href="https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180109006485/en/SolarReserve-Achieves-Key-Milestone-Development-South-Australia%E2%80%99s" target="_blank">boasts</a> that Aurora's massive 1,100 megawatt-hours of storage will provide eight hours of full load power after dark.<br></p><p>
"This means that, from storage (its 'salt battery') alone, Aurora will be capable of powering South Australia far in excess of State Government buildings, the equivalent of over 230,000 homes for eight hours, or around 35 percent of all of the households in South Australia," the company said.
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According to the <a href="http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/opinion/the-advertiser-editorial-bright-sparks-in-sa-energy-developments/news-story/bca7623798848d2eb7c69f7fe2a5938b" target="_blank">Adelaide Advertiser</a>, Aurora is yet to secure its capital funding and a $110 million federal government loan still needs to be delivered.
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But Kevin Smith, SolarReserve's CEO, remains optimistic, especially after securing the state's development approval.
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"It is a significant step in the development of the Aurora solar thermal power station, which will bring clean power generation technology to South Australia," he said. “The remarkable story of the transition of Port Augusta from coal to renewable energy … is also a preview of the future of power generation around the world … Aurora is an example of how sustainable solutions are able to foster new industries and create new jobs for South Australia."
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The project, which is slated for completion by 2020, will create an estimated 4,700 indirect and direct jobs.
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South Australian acting energy minister Chris Picton is similarly positive about the project.
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"It's fantastic that SolarReserve has received development approval to move forward with this world-leading project that will deliver clean, dispatchable renewable energy to supply our electrified rail, hospitals and schools and other major government buildings," Picton said.
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Natalie Collard, the executive general manager of the Clean Energy Council, added: "South Australia is providing the rest of the country a glimpse of a renewable energy future. Our electricity system is rapidly moving towards one which will be smarter and cleaner, with a range of technologies providing high-tech, reliable, lower-cost power."
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'History in the Making': Tesla Switches on World's Largest Battery
01 December 2017
Renewable Energy
South Australia officially activated the world's biggest battery on Friday. The feat was achieved much to the credit of Elon Musk, who made a daring bet to “get the system installed and working 100 days from contract signature or it is free."
Musk was responding to a challenge from Australian billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes to help fix the Australian state's electricity woes. Losing the bet would have cost the Tesla CEO "probably $50 million or more."
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Not only did the Musk win the bet, his company built the football field-sized facility in Jamestown (about 125 miles north of Adelaide) about a month and a half ahead of schedule.
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"The completion of the world's largest lithium-ion battery in record time shows that a sustainable, effective energy solution is possible," Tesla said in a statement Friday at the battery's launch.
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<span></span>The 100-megawatt Powerpack system is designed to power 30,000 houses for an hour during a blackout. The Australian state was hit by a string of power outages last year.
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"South Australia is now leading the world in dispatchable
<a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/renewable-energy/">renewable energy</a>. This is history in the making," South Australia Premier Jay Weatherill said Friday of the Tesla battery.
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Australia is one of the world's biggest producers of <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/tag/coal">coal</a>. The polluting fossil fuel and is the country's primary source for generating electricity. But the South Australian state government has gone in the other direction and has invested heavily in renewable energy ever since Weatherill took office in 2011.
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Critics including Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull have
<a href="http://www.news.com.au/technology/environment/why-south-australias-blackouts-are-a-problem-for-us-all/news-story/bc3bbc8be17d80844bc05ab7f5760d56" target="_blank">blamed</a> the 2016 blackouts on the state's electricity grid, which relies on 40 percent renewables, but Weatherill says the power outages were caused by severe weather.
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Tesla's battery will charge from Neoen's Hornsdale
<a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/tag/wind" target="_blank">wind</a> farm near Jamestown, South Australia and deliver electricity during peak hours.
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"The battery will bring essential grid stability by providing a fast injection of power. But it will not solve the problem of blackouts on its own," Franck Woitiez, managing director of Neoen Australia, told the
<a href="https://www.ft.com/content/2ca27ee6-d634-11e7-8c9a-d9c0a5c8d5c9" target="_blank">Financial Times</a>.
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Still, Woitiez rejected the federal government's notion that coal should remain in Australia's energy future.
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"Coal is a thing of the past. In 2017 we are showing that the energy transition is happening. Battery costs are falling and it is now cheaper to build renewables than new coal plants."
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Tesla Finishes Building World's Largest Battery Month and a Half Ahead of Schedule
24 November 2017
Renewable Energy
Tesla's massive Powerpack battery system in South Australia is charged by a nearby wind farm. Tesla
Elon Musk has won an audacious bet he made back in March to build a battery system for South Australia in “100 days from contract signature or it is free."
The 100-megawatt Powerpack system is the world's largest, or three times bigger than Tesla and Edison's battery at Mira Loma in Ontario, California.
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The Tesla CEO was responding to a challenge from Australian IT billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes to help fix the Australian state's electricity woes. Losing the bet would have cost Musk "<a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-australia-power-tesla/tesla-wins-giant-battery-contract-in-australia-has-100-day-deadline-idUSKBN19S0EV" target="_blank">probably $50 million or more</a>."
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As it happens, when the grid connection deal was finally signed on Sept. 29—kick-staring the 100-day clock—Tesla was already halfway finished with installation. So if you want to be technical, you could say that the project was finished a month and a half before the contract's deadline. The company
<a href="https://www.tesla.com/en_AU/blog/tesla-powerpack-enable-large-scale-sustainable-energy-south-australia?redirect=no" target="_blank">originally estimated</a> completion by December 2017.
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The lithium-ion battery storage facility will charge using
<a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/renewable-energy/">renewable energy</a> from Neoen's Hornsdale <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/tag/wind">wind</a> farm near Jamestown, South Australia and deliver electricity during peak hours.
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According to <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-just-met-his-100-day-deadline-on-a-50-million-bet-2017-11" target="_blank">Business Insider</a>, when fully charged, the battery should hold enough power for 8,000 homes for 24 hours, or more than 30,000 houses for an hour during a blackout. <span></span>
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"While others are just talking, we are delivering our energy plan, making South Australia more self-sufficient, and providing back up power and more affordable energy for South Australians this summer," said Premier Jay Weatherill in a media statement.
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"The world's largest lithium ion battery will be an important part of our energy mix, and it sends the clearest message that South Australia will be a leader renewable energy with battery storage."
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Weatherill said that regulatory testing over the next few days will ensure that the battery is optimized and meets energy market regulatory requirements before operations commence on Dec. 1.
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Musk tweeted, "Congratulations to the Tesla crew and South Australian authorities who worked so hard to get this manufactured and installed in record time!"
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Photo credit: Lyon Group
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.
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The Riverland plant <a href="http://reneweconomy.com.au/worlds-biggest-solar-battery-storage-plant-ready-to-build-in-sa-63777/" target="_blank">consists of</a> 330MW of solar PV and a 100MW/400MWh battery storage system, or 3.4 million solar panels and 1.1 million batteries.
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<span></span>The new project couldn't come sooner. A major <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-03-09/looming-gas-shortage-will-threaten-nations-power-supplies/8337204" target="_blank">gas shortage is looming</a> and the country's decades-old <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-28/australia-faces-power-volatility-as-hazelwood-coal-plant-closes" target="_blank">coal plants are shutting down</a>, sparking potential price hikes and putting the nation's energy security at risk.
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The $1 billion (US $767 million) project was announced amid South Australia's recent spate of blackouts. </p><p>Interestingly, the ball really seemed to roll after an intriguing <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/840032197637685249" target="_blank">tweet</a> from none other than <a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/tag/elon-musk">Elon Musk</a>.</p><p>You may recall that <a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/elon-musk-australia-2309117728.html">earlier this month</a> the Tesla CEO offered to build a 100MW battery storage farm for the Australian state. To up the ante, he said he would provide the system for free if it was not commissioned within 100 days. Musk's audacious bet led to an eventual conversation with Australian prime minister Malcolm Turnbull.</p><p>
<span></span>Days later, the South Australian government announced an open, competitive tender for a 100MW battery storage project.
</p><p>"The battery will modernize South Australia's energy grid and begin the transformation to the next generation of renewable-energy storage technologies," the government office <a href="http://ourenergyplan.sa.gov.au/our-plan.html#OP1" target="_blank">stated</a>.</p><p>
According to Australia's <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-03-30/new-solar-project-announced-for-sa-riverland/8400952" target="_blank">ABC News,</a> Lyon Group partner David Green said the company will build its new plant, along with a similar plant near the town of Roxby Downs, regardless of the outcome of the government's tender:
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The Lyon Group has already signaled its intention to bid for a SA government tender to build a battery storage system with 100-megawatt output.
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The tender arrangement would give the government the right to tap the battery storage at times of peak demand, but allow the project owner to sell energy and stability into the market at other times.
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An expressions of interest process closes on Friday.
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Other companies, including Carnegie, Zen Energy and Tesla, have all suggested they could be interested in bidding.
</p><p style="margin-left: 20px;">Green said the outcome of the tender would not determine whether or not Lyon's projects were built, but would influence the final storage configuration in terms of the balance between optimizing grid security and capturing trading revenue.
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Green said the project was 100 percent equity financed and construction would begin within months, requiring 270 workers, ABC News reported.
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"We see the inevitability of the need to have large-scale solar and integrated batteries as part of any move to decarbonize," Green added.
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