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>It's important to note it is something special. The battery works, and it works better than the existing solutions.

[[Citation needed.]]

How much was the shortfall?

How long could the battery have sustained the shortfall?

How much damage would there have been at the usual response time?

How what is the ROI without government subsidy to building huge battery storage?

The citation that it works is in the article.

Regarding the ROI and subsidies, I guess you would need to compare them to the billions received by the incumbents :)

The power crisis in South Australia has been extremely costly. The cost for the proposed fast start gas power plant was 380 million.

The state-wide blackout cost businesses 367 million.

This battery will cost taxpayers 50 million over 10 years, apparently. Seems like a pretty good deal.

>The citation that it works is in the article.

What worked in the article?

It only says the battery supplied less than 2% of the lost power for about 5 seconds before regular power generators took over.

The battery is not supposed to replace the Victorian Loy Yang. That's one of the biggest power stations in Australia.

It is supposed to kick in and help support the South Australia power grid when power drops. It did that, faster than the designated backup did.

It worked as designed.