The Importance of Long Durability Storage

The first storage and short duration was in this two to four hour window. As the grid gets more saturated with intermittent renewables or wind or solar, your by definition, get any longer duration storage. For example, if you want to power industrial processes that require 24 seven power, like think about a desalination plant That makes critical drinking water for large, large populations. To do that, you need power through the night and the sun goes down. Wind will go better at night, but it's unpredictable. So there's applications for long duration. And then you get into ultra long duration for multi day storage that can be what some of the utilities have to plan for.

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