Virginia Mercury discusses Energy storage is the ‘Swiss army knife’ of the renewables transition, but it’s still evolving.
Hang around any debate about clean energy and you’re bound to hear one question: What do you do when the sun isn’t shining and the wind isn’t blowing?
The answer, at least in theory, is straightforward: energy storage.
Storage can be thought of as the third leg of the stool Virginia will use to reach its clean energy goals.
It’s what Virginia Advanced Energy Economy Executive Director Harry Godfrey calls “the Swiss army knife of the energy space,” a way to fill gaps by more intermittent renewable sources while also balancing out the push and pull of energy supply and demand that bedevils every electric grid.