Experience with Energy Storage Technology Is The Key to Promoting Innovation
It
is clear that new innovation is needed to bring down the cost of energy
storage and that the innovation must produce technologies and systems
that are different than what we use today. But in looking for that
innovation and trying to promote it, it is important to identify from
where it is most likely to come. Innovation that matters, that truly
impacts mature technologies such as automobiles and the electricity
grid, will not occur in a vacuum (or in a laboratory alone). Innovation
that matters can only be promoted by giving battery manufacturers, auto
makers and utilities real world, practical experience with existing
energy storage technology, insufficient as it may be, and letting them
figure out how best to increase its power and decrease its cost.
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