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  • Battery storage booming, but even Tesla struggling to cash in
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    Battery storage booming, but even Tesla struggling to cash in

    Grid-scale battery storage is taking off in Australia but it is still a struggle for investors to get value from their services. The contracts for the new Victoria big batteries explain why.
    Giles Parkinson
    Mar 23, 2018
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  • Canavan compares Tesla Big Battery to Kim Kardashian
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    Canavan compares Tesla Big Battery to Kim Kardashian

    Matt Canavan uses global “energy future” stage to poke fun at the Tesla Big Battery, embarrassingly for Australia. In other news, Coalition MPs also hate EVs.
    Sophie Vorrath
    Mar 14, 2018
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  • Micallef on Tesla big battery: Is it cruel to store electrons?
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    Micallef on Tesla big battery: Is it cruel to store electrons?

    Comedian Shaun Micallef sends up opponents to battery storage and wind farms in the best skit on energy matters since Clarke and Dawe.
    Giles Parkinson
    Feb 23, 2018
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  • Musk says storage orders surge on success of Tesla big battery
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    Musk says storage orders surge on success of Tesla big battery

    Elon Musk says the Tesla big battery in South Australia has exceeded performance targets “significantly,” a success that has put a rocket under sales of the company’s commercial-scale Powerpacks.
    Sophie Vorrath & Giles Parkinson
    Feb 8, 2018
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  • Tesla, Trump, Turnbull and the troglodytes: The best stories of 2017
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    Tesla, Trump, Turnbull and the troglodytes: The best stories of 2017

    The death spiral for cars; Tesla’s Big Battery – and electric truck; the two faces of Malcolm Turnbull; and all the other stories that caught our readers’ attention this year.
    Sophie Vorrath
    Dec 21, 2017
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  • Tesla big battery shows off its flexibility in final testing
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    Tesla big battery shows off its flexibility in final testing

    Tesla battery goes through final testing with a rapid series of charging and discharging – never seen before on Australia’s ageing dumb grid.
    Giles Parkinson
    Nov 30, 2017
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