A lot of people are staking a lot of money on the value of energy storage, but nobody agrees on how much it’s worth or how much we’ll need.
That value is becoming clearer thanks to a new study by MIT energy systems researcher Jesse Jenkins and two colleagues, published in the journal Applied Energylast month. They modeled a grid based on the demand and generation profiles of Texas, and tested the optimal energy mix for 2035 under varying carbon emissions limits and amounts of short- and long-duration storage.
