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US grid operators ‘cannot afford a long-duration energy storage dot-com bubble’

April 4, 2023

Long-duration energy storage (LDES) may be in something of a ‘dot-com’ moment, but grid operators cannot afford the ‘hiccup’ of any bubble bursting, a senior ISO manager said at the Energy Storage Summit USA.

That was the message from Mike DeSocio, director for market design at the New York Independent System Operator (NY-ISO), a speaker on the ‘Long-Duration Energy Storage Powering the Future’ panel discussion at the Energy Storage Summit USA last week, hosted in Austin, Texas by our publisher Solar Media.

Balki Iyer, CCO and US country manager for LDES startup e-Zinc, introduced the analogy in his opening remarks.

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