Today, we use batteries to power many of our most fundamental daily tasks, from our phones to robotic vacuums and increasingly to electric vehicles. With the imminent rise of low-carbon distributed energy resources such as wind and solar close at hand, the case for batteries to power homes and the grid grows ever more compelling as a complementary resource capable of time-shifting loads and combatting intermittent shortfalls in production. Storage, in other words, is essential to deploying renewable energy to fight climate change and the pollutants that accompany use of fossil fuels.
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