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Remember when the first “Tesla big battery” at Hornsdale was connected to the grid in South Australia in 2017? It was the first of its kind in the world, but few would have predicted the astonishing growth of the technology across the world in the years since. Australia led the world in the uptake of […] The post Big batteries just hit a new record in Australia, but it’s a small fraction of the battery output in California appeared first on RenewEconomy.
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