We’re going to need a bigger volt
Two big electricity companies, AES and Siemens, have teamed up to form a battery giant, called Fluence (as in fluency, or maybe affluence, or possibly both).
We’re going to need a lot of batteries if we’re going to rely on wind and solar power, which don’t necessarily provide electricity exactly when we need it. So companies, governments, and individuals are investing in big batteries to store electricity until they are ready to use it, e.g. Australia just made a deal with Tesla to build the world’s largest battery next to a wind farm.
Battery storage is still expensive. The…
