Amping Up Energy Storage
May 14, 2024
To counter the intermittent nature of solar and wind energy, utilities in California and elsewhere are building more and bigger batteries to store electricity for later use, the New York Times reports. In Issues, Sarah Kurtz and four other researchers look broadly at the potential of energy storage. Batteries hold promise, the authors write. But rather than locking on one technology geared to power producers, policymakers and researchers should focus on “pushing the frontiers of knowledge by developing inter-sectoral models and scenarios to better understand and quantify potential benefits of synergies among different ways of storing energy across the economy.”