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posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday July 31 2019, @09:48AM   Printer-friendly
from the re-energizing-the-power-industry dept.

Tesla's Megapack Battery is Big Enough to Help Grids Handle Peak Demand:

Tesla announced a new massive battery today called Megapack that could replace so-called "peaker" power plants, which provide energy when a local electrical grid gets overloaded. Tesla says that Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) will deploy several Megapacks at Moss Landing on Monterrey Bay in California, which is one of four locations where the California utility plans to install more cost-effective energy storage solutions.

Each Megapack can store up to 3 megawatt hours (MWh) of energy at a time, and it's possible to string enough Megapacks together to create a battery with more than 1 GWh of energy storage, Tesla says. The company says this would be enough energy to power "every home in San Francisco for six hours." Telsa will deliver the Megapacks fully assembled, and they include "battery modules, bi-directional inverters, a thermal management system, an AC main breaker and controls." Tesla says the Megapack takes up 40 percent less space, requires a tenth of the parts to build, and can be assembled 10 times as fast as alternative energy storage solutions.

Also at cnet.

Would also have the benefit of essentially instant activation versus peaker plants which take some amount of time to spin up, even if kept warmed up and idling.


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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by takyon on Wednesday July 31 2019, @11:05AM

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Wednesday July 31 2019, @11:05AM (#873486) Journal

    The Australian thing could be considered a custom solution, and now this is the company's standardized unit for big installations.

    14 kWh for Powerwall 2, 3,000 kWh for Megapack 1.

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