{"id":132036,"date":"2021-12-09T03:28:50","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T11:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/australia-switches-on-victoria-big-battery-powered-by-tesla-megapacks"},"modified":"2021-12-09T03:28:50","modified_gmt":"2021-12-09T11:28:50","slug":"australia-switches-on-victoria-big-battery-powered-by-tesla-megapacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/australia-switches-on-victoria-big-battery-powered-by-tesla-megapacks","title":{"rendered":"Australia switches on Victoria Big Battery powered by Tesla Megapacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/australia-switches-on-victoria-big-battery-powered-by-tesla-megapacks2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the world\u2019s largest battery-based energy storage systems, powered by Tesla\u2019s utility-scale Megapack batteries, began operating in the Australian state of Victoria on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Large energy storage systems based on lithium-ion batteries have the potential to prevent blackouts and let utilities store and use more energy generated from renewable but intermittent sources, like solar or wind.<\/p>\n<p>Paris-based renewable energy giant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/NEOEN-FR\" target=\"_blank\">Neoen<\/a> developed the facility with partners <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/TSLA\" target=\"_blank\">Tesla<\/a> Energy and AusNet, with some construction by Cimic Group\u2019s UGL. It has enough capacity to power one million homes for half an hour, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/victorianbigbattery.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">web site<\/a> for the project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the world\u2019s largest battery-based energy storage systems, powered by Tesla\u2019s utility-scale Megapack batteries, began operating in the Australian state of Victoria on Wednesday. Large energy storage systems based on lithium-ion batteries have the potential to prevent blackouts and let utilities store and use more energy generated from renewable but intermittent sources, like solar [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,418,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-internet","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}