The ambiguous impact of battery storage on emissions

U.S. researchers have investigated whether energy storage deployment could actually drive up greenhouse gas emissions in the short term in some energy markets. The fact the existing literature considers only the dispatch of energy from storage facilities in the current fossil fuel-renewables energy mix, though, could understate the long-term emissions reduction benefits of such facilities.Researchers from the California-based Electric Power Research Institute have sought to establish what impact the widespread deployment of energy storage will have on greenhouse gas emissions. Counter-intuitively, ...

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