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What Is The Potential Of Non-Battery Energy Storage To Increase Grid Resilience?, Andrew Withers
What Is The Potential Of Non-Battery Energy Storage To Increase Grid Resilience?, Andrew Withers
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This paper seeks to evaluate different technologies in energy storage to determine which ones have the most potential to benefit the energy grid. Technologies like pumped hydro, thermal, gravity, hydrogen, and compressed air storage will be evaluated based on overall costs, marginal costs, unique applications, and efficiency. This paper compares the technologies to batteries on the previous criteria. I also provide a discussion on the policy and economic barriers to the further use of non-battery technologies to support grid reliability during the transition to a cleaner grid that is more reliant on variable renewable generators.