Last week, the Long Duration Energy Storage Council, of which ESS is a founding member, released its latest report, The Journey to Net-Zero: An Action Plan to Unlock a Secure, Carbon-free Power System. The report underscores necessary policy reforms to enable and encourage the adoption of Long-Duration Energy Storage (LDES), a critical component of the clean energy transition which will support higher penetrations of renewable energy and enhance grid resilience and reliability.
There is broad recognition among policy makers, utilities, independent power producers and many others of the need for significant implementation of LDES to meet our decarbonization goals. Unfortunately, outdated regulatory structures have failed to keep pace with technology innovations, creating challenges in realizing the full potential of these solutions and thus…