{"id":176642,"date":"2023-11-24T08:24:08","date_gmt":"2023-11-24T14:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/tesla-megapack-battery-farm-in-queensland-connected-to-the-grid-report"},"modified":"2023-11-24T08:24:08","modified_gmt":"2023-11-24T14:24:08","slug":"tesla-megapack-battery-farm-in-queensland-connected-to-the-grid-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/tesla-megapack-battery-farm-in-queensland-connected-to-the-grid-report","title":{"rendered":"Tesla Megapack battery farm in Queensland connected to the grid: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tesla-megapack-battery-farm-in-queensland-connected-to-the-grid-report2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 100MW\/200MWh Chinchilla battery in Queensland, Australia, has been registered and connected to the grid. Expectations are high that the massive battery farm\u2019s commissioning will begin soon.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinchilla battery features 80 Tesla Megapack batteries. It is also the first battery farm that will be built by state-owned generator CS Energy, as noted in a <em>Renew Economy<\/em> report. The facility was committed as part of the state\u2019s response to an explosion at the Callide coal-fired generator \u2014 an incident that helped convince the state to accelerate its adoption of sustainable solutions.<\/p>\n<p>The 80 Tesla Megapack batteries are situated next to the Kogan Creek coal-fired generator, which also happens to be owned by CS Energy. The 750MW Kogan Creek coal-fired generator is among the largest coal-fired facilities in Australia. As per local reports, CS Energy is looking to develop a clean energy hub around Kogan Creek, so the Tesla Megapack farm could be considered part of the state-owned generator\u2019s initiatives in the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 100MW\/200MWh Chinchilla battery in Queensland, Australia, has been registered and connected to the grid. Expectations are high that the massive battery farm\u2019s commissioning will begin soon. The Chinchilla battery features 80 Tesla Megapack batteries. It is also the first battery farm that will be built by state-owned generator CS Energy, as noted in a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1506,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-food","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176642","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=176642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}