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Tesla seems to have done it pretty quickly for South Australia: https://electrek.co/2018/05/11/tesla-giant-battery-australia-reduced-grid-service-cost/ https:/
by SyneRyder 4y ago
Tesla seems to have done it pretty quickly for South Australia:
https://electrek.co/2018/05/11/tesla-giant-battery-australia-reduced-grid-service-cost/ https://electrek.co/2018/05/11/tesla-giant-battery-australia...
Elon promised "Tesla will get the system installed and working 100 days from contract signature or it is free." And then had the entire thing connected and powering the South Australian power grid in just 63 days:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/mar/10/elon-musk-i-can-fix-south-australia-power-network-in-100-days-or-its-free https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/mar/10/elon-musk...
I'm fairly confident that 100 days is less than decades.
- DavidPeiffer 4y agoThat project was 200 MWh. 1 day of Germany electricity consumption is on the order of 1,400,000 MWh, something like 7,000x larger. A "few days" of electricity storage would take orders of magnitude longer to build and deploy, even if we worked on Elon's most optimistic timeline.