<< Tesla’s South Australia Battery Disrupting Gas Frequency Control and Ancillary Services<\/strong><\/p>\n Tesla’s 100MW \/ 129 MWh Hornsdale grid battery storage plant in South Australia made A$1m (US$ 800k) over two days in wholesale market.<\/p>\n (1) It ramps from 0 to 100MW in 140 ms<\/p>\n -100x faster than gas.(1)<\/p>\n Tesla’s Battery with just 2% of the FCAS (Frequency Control & Ancillary Services) capacity has taken 55% market share while slashing wholesale prices (gas FCAS revenues) by 90%. (2)<\/p>\n (1) & (2) = RenewEconomy >><\/p>\n Another quote<\/p>\n << Batteries – Disrupting Centralized Power Generation<\/p>\n \u2022 The grid works like a just-in-time supply chain without inventory<\/p>\n \u2022 Grid: inefficient use of Assets<\/p>\n \u2022 $$ Billions in generating assets used just a few hours per year<\/p>\n Ex: ConEd – 32% of Generation assets used<\/p>\n <517 hrs\/yr (5.9%)<\/p>\n Batteries flatten the demand curve, destroy pricing power and replace<\/u> generation assets on the grid.<\/p>\n Disruption from Above:<\/p>\n 1. Fossil Ancillary Services Disruption<\/p>\n 2. Fossil Peaker Disruption<\/p>\n 3. Baseload Disruption<\/p>\n Sources: (1) Con edison NY (2) GreenTech Media (3) NREL >><\/p>\n Stranded Assets<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n This is where the utilities are hurt the most. They will be left holding natural gas power plants that are no longer profitable – stranded assets – the plants will be losing money.<\/p>\n The battery storage plants can be brought online in less than a year. The Hornsdale storage was online in well under 100 days!<\/p>\n From https:\/\/youtu.be\/O-kbzfWzvSI<\/a><\/p>\n The Hornsdale Battery Storage has made a big disruption in the market for electricity in South Australia. Since it can supply electricity almost instantaneously it outcompetes the gas turbine generating plants even though it is a much smaller percent of the total electric supply. The South Australia state has a large amount of renewables – <\/p>\n (Read More…)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[144,249,706,356,34,543,542],"tags":[533,743,742,603,489],"class_list":["post-14968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-battery-or-cell","category-electrical-system","category-energy-storage","category-lithium","category-renewable-energy","category-solar","category-wind","tag-battery","tag-bess","tag-hornsdale","tag-storage","tag-tesla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14968"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14975,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14968\/revisions\/14975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/screenshot_20210119-13150026912031924572204151..jpg\")
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