Australian battery farm competiton heats up

Elon Musk’s offer to South Australia to shore up its troubled power grid within 100 days, or deliver a solution for free, is facing tough competition from rival clean energy companies keen to capitalise on the state’s plight

TESLA BATTERY FARM

Musk is offering to construct massive 100 megawatt-hour battery farm, similar to this 80MW one in California

AUSTRALIA

South Australia

Feb 2017 heatwave: Inadequate power to meet demand leads to blackouts

SELECTED COMPETITION

LG Chem (KOR) and partner

Zen Energy (AUS) using batteries from Greensmith (USA)

Lyon Group (AUS) in partnership with AES Corp (USA)

Carnegie Clean Energy (AUS) and Lend Lease Corp (AUS), using Samsung (KOR) SDI batteries

Equis Energy (SIN), has ambitions to build two solar power plants in Australia

redT Energy (GBR), vanadium energy firm, and undisclosed partner

Hundreds of Powerpacks charged up using off-peak electricity. Discharged back into grid when
needed most, at peak times

Substation:Connects farm to electricity grid

Powerpack: Holds array of 16 Tesla Model S car battery packs

7,000 power cells, slightly bigger than AA batteries

Sources: Tesla, wire agencies