Welcome to the new ice age: The answer to peak power problems has always been storage, but that has proven to be a difficult feat to achieve

摘要

IN EVERY commodity market in the world, except electricity, storage is used to address the periodic imbalance between supply and demand. We store food, water and fuel to dampen price volatility, create efficiency in consumption, and increase reliability in delivery. Only the electricity market meets peaks in demand by overbuilding generation, transmission, and distribution assets, which then sit idle most of the time.