New technology is required to make meaningful progress on climate change. This column will focus on one of those options: energy storage. A breakthrough in this area could alter the energy landscape and help the effort to combat climate change.
Improvements in utility scale energy storage could help decrease emissions and increase efficiency. The usual variability of demand for electricity causes inefficiency in energy production. This is true for any feedstock but it is especially true for renewables. Renewables are intermittent; peak production times for wind and solar don’t match peak load times.
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