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Energy Storage and Renewable Energy

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As clean energy goals and declining renewable costs are driving increased adoption of renewable resources across the United States electric grid, energy storage is a critical component of the clean energy toolkit. Energy storage is a dynamic resource that can be deployed as either a bulk system or a distributed resource and has the ability to provide many flexibility and grid balancing services historically supplied by fossil-fueled power plants. Energy storage deployment is growing rapidly but faces adoption challenges due to second-order environmental impacts, infrastructure costs, and outdated policy structures. Energy storage will be critical to attainment of economy-wide deep decarbonization goals, and declining costs and policy and market reforms are expected to rapidly accelerate deployment.

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Childs, E. (2023). Energy Storage and Renewable Energy. In: Wang, K.T., Tietjen, J.S. (eds) Women in Renewable Energy. Women in Engineering and Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28543-1_5

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