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Electricity storage: Friend or foe of the networks?

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As storage technology progresses it offers a range of solutions and services to users and the electricity industry. A new study explores whether or not this will eventually lead to self-sufficient consumers and spell the end of the networks as we know them.

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Figure 1: Use cases and timescales for electricity storage.

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  1. Tooraj Jamasb is at Durham University Business School and the Durham Energy Institute, Durham University, Mill Hill Lane, Durham 3LB, UK.,

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Jamasb, T. Electricity storage: Friend or foe of the networks?. Nat Energy 2, 17092 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nenergy.2017.92

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