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These 3 energy storage technologies can help solve the challenge of moving to 100% renewable electricity

  • Written by Kerry Rippy, Researcher, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
imageEnergy storage can make facilities like this solar farm in Oxford, Maine, more profitable by letting them store power for cloudy days.AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty

In recent decades the cost of wind and solar power generation has dropped dramatically. This is one reason that the U.S. Department of Energy projects that renewable energy will be the fastes...

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