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Podcast: Climate Now
Episode: Battery power: the future of grid-scale energy storage
Description: Is the battery revolution here? Or have we already been living in it for three decades?Renewable energy sources - wind and solar - have become the cheapest and fastest growing form of electricity generation. But the industry has not yet escaped the perennial criticism that keeps many from believing that the world could run entirely on renewable energy: what happens when the sun isn’t shining or the wind isn’t blowing? To date, batteries have not been a particularly convincing answer, due both to their cost and their limited ability to store industrial scal...