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Yikes! Solar battery farm fined $900,000

30 June 2022

3:10 PM

30 June 2022

3:10 PM

It turns out that South Australia’s miracle battery solution to the instability of renewable energy isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.

The Hornsdale Power Reserve, famous for being Australia’s world-first so-called ‘big battery’ (or battery farm), has been fined $900,000 and promised to repay some of the money it received after it fell short on its energy promises.

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