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Powercor installs Australia's largest battery in Ballarat South 20 August 2015: Electricity distributor Powercor is to install Australia’s largest battery of 2MW capacity in Buninyong. Once complete, Powercor will install and start testing the battery in December 2015, with the battery expected to be fully operational by early 2016. The battery will be located in a 40-foot shipping container and will provide around 3,000... The battery’s additional capacity will help reduce stress on the network on peak demand days, which then increases the life of the existing electrical asset, reduces maintenance costs and ultimately lowers costs for our customers. Data shows that customers in Buninyong experience an average of three outages a year with each outage lasting over 100 minutes. Installing a battery will reduce the total outage time by almost 66% to less than 33 minutes a year. Tesla’s Germany and Austria director returns to Sonnenbatterie 25 August 2015: Tesla’s country director for Germany and Austria, Philipp Schröder, is to return to Sonnenbatterie, the German maker of domestic and commercial battery-based energy... Source: www.pv-tech.org
