It seems that energy storage shall be the next big trend in the coming year. As the cost to produce power declines, the means to store what we’ve harnessed becomes our next limitation. Batteries remain bulky, expensive, inefficient, or some combination of the aforementioned – BUT – in recent articles, it seems that is all about to change:
Tesla CEO Elon Musk: Gigafactory will take battery production ‘to another level’
Energy storage: The hot new thing in Silicon Valley
Storage Is the New Solar: Will Batteries and PV Create an Unstoppable Hybrid Force?