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Related: About this forumTesla's Virtual Power Plant rescues grid after coal peaker fails, and it's only 2% finished
Teslas Virtual Power Plant project in South Australia is only around ~2% complete, but it is already proving to be a difference-maker, rescuing Queenslands grid during an unexpected power outage. The response time and efficiency of the Virtual Power Plant mirror that of Teslas other large-scale energy project in the region, the highly-acclaimed Hornsdale Power Reserve.
Back in October, Queenslands Kogan Creek coal power station, one of the largest in the region, tripped and caused the power system to drop well below the normal level of system frequency. Teslas Virtual Power Plant promptly stepped in, detecting the frequency drop and injecting power into the grid from Powerwall batteries loaded with energy from solar panels installed in SA Housing Trust properties across the state.
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The Energy Ministers statement is notable, considering that there are only about 900 homes forming the Virtual Power Plant as of date. Teslas target for the full VPP is a whopping 50,000 solar-powered, Powerwall-equipped homes. If less than 2% of the planned Virtual Power Plant can already rescue Queenslands grid when a large coal plant fails, one can only imagine how much stability a fully-completed VPP could accomplish. - Teslarati
Bring back coal, MAGAts.
America is being left behind.
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Tesla's Virtual Power Plant rescues grid after coal peaker fails, and it's only 2% finished (Original Post)
ffr
Dec 2019
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And without having to take up so much land with wind farms and solar farms. n/t
Beartracks
Dec 2019
#4
id love to do this in this country, but , the thing in the white house wont allow it.
AllaN01Bear
Dec 2019
#2
Raster
(20,998 posts)1. Dear TESLA,
Please come to Arizona. Let's cover every freaking roof with solar cells. Let's remake the Southwest's power grid, without coal, without natural gas, without nuclear.
Dear Google,
TESLA is coming to Arizona to remake the power grid. I'd like to invite you to help remake the broadband information structure, building ultra-fast fiber optic to every corner of the state.
liberalla
(9,264 posts)3. YES!!! Come to AZ!
Both Tesla and Google ultra fast fiber optic broadband!
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and wow!
That's mighty frickin impressive about Tesla rescuing the grid in Australia, with only 2% completion on their new VPP!
Beartracks
(12,821 posts)4. And without having to take up so much land with wind farms and solar farms. n/t
AllaN01Bear
(18,443 posts)2. id love to do this in this country, but , the thing in the white house wont allow it.