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Podcast: Engineering Matters
Episode: #348 Modelling Distributed Energy Storage
Description: In Europe, and around the world, renewable electricity generation is being built at pace. However, these sources of energy create a new challenge: they are intermittent, and will not generate power on dark, windless days.
One solution to the challenge is to install grid scale storage. If you’re building an offshore wind farm, with a view to serving distant industrial centres, megawatt- and gigawatt-scale storage may be the answer.
But much of our energy use happens in the home, or in smaller businesses. Often, with the growth of domestic solar, the power we use in...