Tesla must deliver the 100-MW battery within 100 days of the contract being signed or it will be free. PIctured is Musk with South Australian Premier Jay Weatherill (R) during an official ceremony in Adelaide.
Tesla Inc has won an Australian contract to install the world's biggest grid-scale battery, in what experts say will be a litmus test for the reliability of large-scale renewable energy.
Tesla's CEO Elon Musk, known for his bold approach to cars, clean energy and space exploration, trumped dozens of competing proposals to build the gigantic lithium-ion battery that will serve as emergency back-up power for South Australia – a state racked by outages.
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