Tesla Seeks Upgrade to Grid to Recognize World's Biggest Battery
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The world’s biggest battery, built by Elon Musk’s Tesla Inc. in Australia, is doing its job too well.
The response time for Musk’s Powerpack batteries to feed power into the grid when outages hit is less than 200 milliseconds, Tesla said in a submission to the nation’s energy markets rulemaker. However, the rules, written with large coal and gas generators in mind, gives them a leisurely six seconds to respond. That’s prompted Tesla to call for a shake up of Australia’s old-fashioned grid.