Low-carbon grids need longer-duration storage, but few technologies have succeeded at scale. Here’s the current roster of best bets.
https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/most-promising-long-duration-storage-technologies-left-standing
* in the U.S.
* other developed countries
* 95 percent of U.S. grid storage
* 400-megawatt Gordon Butte
* backing from NextEra Energy
* $110 million from SoftBank
* signed up
* raised $46 million
* stored power in underground caverns
* tried and failed
* different approach
* raised another $37 million
* raised another $30 million
* renting vanadium from mining companies
* soon take over U.K. flow company RedT