There is no reason at all to limit our concepts of grid energy storage and buffers to electricity and batteries—and many opportunities open up if we do not.
Smart Grids and Distributed Energy Create opportunities for Diversity in Energy Storage
Grids, and microgrids, have two approaches to storing energy. They can store it in something that produces electricity, or they can store it in any format that provides a service to its customers. The closer we get to the end users of energy, the more options we have to store energy. The most critical short term goal of smart grids might be to transfer as many incentives for energy storage to the end nodes of the grid as possible as soon as possible.
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