{"id":74011,"date":"2017-12-01T05:22:31","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T13:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/tesla-big-battery-officially-switched-on-in-south-australia"},"modified":"2017-12-07T10:01:08","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T18:01:08","slug":"tesla-big-battery-officially-switched-on-in-south-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/tesla-big-battery-officially-switched-on-in-south-australia","title":{"rendered":"Tesla big battery officially switched on in South Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tesla-big-battery-officially-switched-on-in-south-australia.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Tesla big battery \u2013 the world\u2019s biggest lithium-ion battery storage installation to date \u2013 was officially switched on in South Australia on Friday, a day after it had already demonstrated its value by injecting energy into the grid during the previous day\u2019s afternoon peak.<\/p>\n<p>South Australia premier Jay Weatherill, whose government has provided the subsidy for the battery to be built on the grid with the largest penetration of wind and solar anywhere in the world, described it as a \u201clandmark moment\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis means that, for the first time, clean and affordable wind energy can be dispatched to the grid 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, whether the wind is blowing or not, improving system reliability,\u201d Weatherill said.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/reneweconomy.com.au\/tesla-big-battery-officially-switched-on-in-south-australia-55285\/\">http:\/\/reneweconomy.com.au\/tesla-big-battery-officially-swit...lia-55285\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tesla big battery \u2013 the world\u2019s biggest lithium-ion battery storage installation to date \u2013 was officially switched on in South Australia on Friday, a day after it had already demonstrated its value by injecting energy into the grid during the previous day\u2019s afternoon peak. South Australia premier Jay Weatherill, whose government has provided the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1490,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-government","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74011","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=74011"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74045,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74011\/revisions\/74045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}