Tesla wins SA battery tender

Grid scale batteries are not a Tesla speciality but pollies do love a little celebrity:

South Australia has announced Elon Musk’s Tesla as the principal builder of the world’s largest lithium ion battery to expand the state’s renewable energy supply.

The company’s battery boss says SA’s power woes can be solved in 100 days while launching Powerwall 2 units for households in Australia.

The mega-project will be built in conjunction with French renewable energy firm Neoen and paired with Neoen’s existing wind farm at Hornsdale north of Adelaide.

Company executives gathered at Adelaide Oval on Friday for the announcement with Premier Jay Weatherill, and were expected to be joined by chief executive Elon Musk.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.