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Faizel Patel, Radio Islam News – 07-12-2017<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n \n Radio Islam\u2019s Asia Pacific correspondent says electric car manufacturer Tesla\u2019s switch on of the world\u2019s biggest lithium ion battery in Australia is a game changer.<\/p>\n The lithium ion battery was switched on last week, in time to feed Australia\u2019s shaky power grid for the first day of summer, meeting a promise by South African born entrepreneur Elon Musk to build it in 100 days or give it free.<\/p>\n Tesla won a bid in July to build the 129-megawatt hour battery for South Australia, which is powered by a windfarm using renewable energy and avoiding fossil fuels.<\/p>\n Kiru Naidoo says the lithium ion battery takes technology to a completely new plain.<\/p>\n \u201cMusk must be complimented for making good on a promise that he would build the battery within 100 days. Australia has experienced a whole range of power outages that have darkened an entire state, so this kind of intervention really improves its power supply security.\u201d<\/p>\n As Musk basks in the glow of meeting his 100-day challenge, Hyundai Electric & Energy Systems has announced it took an order for an industrial energy-storage system to be installed by February.<\/p>\n The 150-megawatt system, expected to be the world’s largest on delivery, was purchased by Korea Zinc at a cost of 50 billion won (R 609 million) for use at its Ulsan refinery.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n