It is just over six years ago since Australia’s first big battery – the so called Tesla big battery at Hornsdale – made its debut on the grid, and many people are still struggling to get their minds around what it is they actually do.
Most of the big batteries on Australia’s main grids have been designed to address specific system issues – helping out frequency control, providing system support by acting as a sort of shock absorber, and more recently for the more “conventional” task of soaking up solar and shifting to the evening peak.
Big batteries – as their number, capacity and hours of storage […]
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Image : Tesla big battery at Hornsdale
