As governments and companies pledge to go carbon neutral in the coming decades, we will need more solar and wind power — but we will also need to store that energy so it can be used when the sun isn’t shining and the wind isn’t blowing.
In the future, we’ll generate nearly all our electricity from zero-carbon solar energy sources and wind power, and we’ll store that electricity near the source, near the industries and communities that use it and everywhere in between. That clean energy will power our homes, businesses, cars and someday our aircraft — which means we’ll need more renewable production and storage capacity.
Energy storage makes power from renewable sources dependable and available on demand. Wind turbines do not generate power when the weather is calm. Solar cells produce lots of zero-carbon electricity during the day when the sun is high, but…