Washington, D.C. — Extreme weather events and natural disasters, from hurricanes to floods and droughts to wildfires, already exact an enormous toll on the reliability of the nation’s electricity grid. This problem promises to worsen as climate change makes these events more frequent and severe. A new issue brief by the Center for American Progress describes how advances in energy storage technology are positioning distributed battery systems to be a feasible option for mitigating service interruptions caused by extreme weather. The brief looks at how the economics of energy storage have changed and how a coordinated resilience effort to collectively strengthen the electric grid with energy storage technology could improve grid reliability.
RELEASE: Advances in Energy Storage Technology Put it in the Climate Change Resilience Conversation
on July 20, 2016
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