The case against Tesla and battery storage just hit peak stupidity

It is clearly getting under their skin, this battery storage technology, and its potential as a “game changer” in the energy industry.

Battery storage and peak stupidity,

We’ve had the politicians mocking Tesla’s big battery as little more than a “Big Banana”, and the far right railing against it because it’s not coal, and taking umbrage when the likes of AGL dare suggest a big battery as a possible partial substitute for an old generator like Liddell.

But the case against battery storage has just hit peak stupid.

It came in an article in Australian Financial Review over the weekend, under the authorship of one of its “Chanticleer” columnists, Michael Smith, and supposedly quoting Snowy Hydro CEO Paul Broad and its CFO Gordon Wyler from an interview and a “previously unreleased presentation”.

The article makes claims about the cost comparisons of pumped hydro and battery storage are so absurd that it is stunning to think that it could be repeated in a leading business journal, let alone the back-page column that claims to the country’s most authoritative.

Read the RenewEconomy story by Giles Parkinson - “The case against Tesla and battery storage just hit peak stupidity.”