Victoria receives the excess supply, which is also stored in Tesla’s ‘big battery’.
Apocalyptic predictions concerning the Australian state grid were being made only a few years ago, and South Australia’s Big Battery was being mocked.
It now serves as a model for the rest of the world and provides electricity to other states.
The link to New South Wales becomes operational and will be able to handle any extra power produced in South Australia starting in 2025.
The Australian government said:
“The Western Australia main grid, known as the Southwest Interconnected System (SWIS), is expected to phase out the last of its state-owned coal generators by 2028, mainly because they are dirty and polluting, and because they struggle to deal with the big bite of the energy pie taken by rooftop solar in the middle of the day.”