{"id":73012,"date":"2017-10-03T02:22:40","date_gmt":"2017-10-03T09:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/tesla-says-its-halfway-done-building-the-worlds-biggest-battery"},"modified":"2017-10-03T02:22:40","modified_gmt":"2017-10-03T09:22:40","slug":"tesla-says-its-halfway-done-building-the-worlds-biggest-battery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/tesla-says-its-halfway-done-building-the-worlds-biggest-battery","title":{"rendered":"Tesla says it\u2019s halfway done building the world\u2019s biggest battery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tesla-says-its-halfway-done-building-the-worlds-biggest-battery.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said that the company was halfway done building the battery bank that will become the world\u2019s biggest battery once it\u2019s complete. Musk made the announcement at a party overlooking the project\u2019s construction, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2017-09-29\/elon-musk-tesla-world-biggest-battery-reaches-halfway-mark\/9001542\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ABC News Australia<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>Tesla is building the 129-MWh battery with French energy company Neoen. The battery will be draw energy from Neoen\u2019s Hornsdale wind farm that\u2019s 142 miles north of Adelaide. The electricity will be delivered to South Australians during peak grid times to reduce the number of blackouts in the area, which are frequent in summer months.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe system is a big battery, a battery big enough to power 50,000 houses \u2014 the biggest in the world,\u201d Neoen global COO Romain Desrousseaux previously told <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/tesla-to-build-worlds-largest-lithium-ion-battery-in-australia-2017-7\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Business Insider<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/tesla-says-halfway-done-building-140300003.html?utm_content=bufferd517b&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=yahoofinance\">https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/tesla-says-halfway-done-build...hoofinance<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said that the company was halfway done building the battery bank that will become the world\u2019s biggest battery once it\u2019s complete. Musk made the announcement at a party overlooking the project\u2019s construction, ABC News Australia reported. Tesla is building the 129-MWh battery with French energy company Neoen. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,1497,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-energy","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73012","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}