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g'day Australia Tesla will build the world's largest lithium ion battery down under partnering with energy company neo n' Tesla will build the battery in South Australia this year the premier of South Australia tweeted the news and Tesla CEO Elon Musk also flew in to make the announcement how big is the battery it is 100 megawatts and can provide 129 megawatt hours of energy it will produce more than nine thousand times the energy of one tesla powerwall but don't forget that's just for a single home Tesla has installed 20 megawatt batteries in California before but the Australian version is a significantly larger project Tesla says the new system will provide enough power for more than 30 thousand homes the battery pack will be combined with neo ins wind farm to help solve power shortages so why is such a big battery needed in September 2016 South Australia suffered a statewide blackout when a storm damaged the network Tesla said it could solve the problem and the co-founder of Aussie company Atlassian challenged musk on Twitter he of course accepted and said that Tesla will get the system installed and working 100 days from contract signature or it's free must confirm that the 100 day pledge is not aspirational it's in the contract for the deal if the company fails to meet the deadline it could cost him a lot of money Tesla's CEO also thinks the power pack could become a tourist attraction don't laugh he's actually serious Australia has a track record of tourists flocking to big things like the big banana the big pineapple and the big merino power up with all the latest tech news at cnet.com