Battery-makers on Turnbull's Tesla chat: 'Give Australian companies a fair go'
by Melissa Davey from Environment | The Guardian on (#2FPGE)
Industry wants more support from federal government now prime minister has 'taken interest in the tweets of an American billionaire'
Malcolm Turnbull should encourage Australia's battery energy storage industry now he has "taken interest in the tweets of an American billionaire", Zen Energy chairman Ross Garnaut says.
Garnaut was referring to Elon Musk, the billionaire co-founder of electric car giant Tesla, who tweeted that Tesla could solve the power shortage issue causing price spikes and blackouts in South Australia within 100 days by installing 100-300 megawatt hours of battery storage.
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