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		phreeza on Feb 17, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tesla Motors Announces a New Home Battery This is being done. Power companies have shipping containers full of batteries hooked up to their grids. I have read better stories but the first thing I found googling just now is this http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-01-07/ausnet-trialling-new-s...

sehugg on Feb 17, 2015 [–]

That's still a pilot program, though. The Wikipedia article has a good summary of various tech and installed systems: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_energy_storage#Batteries

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