Virtual power to the people: A new way of generating energy by letting communities pool together is getting its first big test in South Australia, says Alice Klein.

ELECTRIC power production; TESLA Inc.; POWER resources; LITHIUM-ion batteries; WIND power plants

The article focuses on the use of a virtual power plant by the government in South Australia to generate energy with the help from energy storage company Tesla Inc. It mentions that the government partnered with the company in July 2017 to build the biggest lithium ion battery internationally in Hornsdale which stores energy from an adjacent wind farm.