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BOSTON, June 1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The stationary energy storage market is growing very fast, with daily news of large installations announced at both sides of the power grid: Front-of-Meter
Urgent Need for New Stationary Storage, Reveals IDTechEx
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BOSTON, May 24, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Starved of lithium-ion batteries and pumped storage sites, the stationary energy storage business is urgently looking for alternatives. See them in the new IDTechEx report, Stationary Energy Storage Without Batteries: Grid, Microgrid, UPS, Trackside 2021-2041 .
Tesla now sells its Powerwall house battery only to those buying the full solar house and, like its competitors, it has delayed electric vehicle launches also due to battery shortage. Metals shortages are taking over from too few gigafactories as the primary impediment ongoing. Demand for electric vehicles and grid renewables storage is rocketing even before solar houses reach the tipping point and need tens of millions more. In addition, energy-independent smart cities need distributed energy storage for their ocean, wind, and ubiquitous solar power.
A modest proposal for reviving Ghost Town in the Sky Cory Vaillancourt photo
By Case Brown • Guest Columnist | The on-and-off again investment deals for the embattled Ghost Town amusement park are familiar to anyone who reads these pages. Multiple meandering deals and their abrupt course corrections feel remarkably like the Black Widow ride that used to jerkily sling mountain ilk around to the soothing sounds of raging death metal picked by the latest pimpled carnie operator.
Puke-inducing memories aside, I have a modest proposal for the beleaguered beast atop Maggie’s Buck Mountain. We have the unique opportunity here to increase renewable energy storage and resolve the overtourism problem burgeoning in the mountain region.
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The way we produce electricity has changed; we are no longer compelled to rely on expensive, polluting fossil fuels and instead have opted for cleaner and cheaper sources.
Power generation in the future is likely to consist of a mix of low-carbon sources such as renewables, hydro and nuclear power. But while renewable sources like the sun and wind now supply a large proportion of our energy, they are intermittent, only generating energy at certain times.
To reap the full benefits of renewables, we must store some of the energy when it is generated and use it in peak demand. One way to do this is with stationary energy storage in the form of batteries.