What’s the Most Critical Clean Energy Technology?

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You’re thinking – what could be more critical than the continued deployment of solar and wind? The answer is a technology that actually makes solar and wind useful to utility operators: battery storage.

Intermittency to a grid operator is like garlic to a vampire. I’m not telling most readers on Energy Central anything that they don’t know, but keeping a grid operating smoothly requires consistent 24/7 power or what the utility industry refers to as base load power. Solar and wind is the farthest thing from base load power. Energy storage changes that dynamic.

Like many aspects of clean energy, the battery storage market is going gangbusters. That begs two questions:

▶ 1. Can it continue?

▶ 2. Is what is being installed at a record pace the long-term solution?

Today’s post answers those questions.

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