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Electricity storage: Making large-scale adoption of wind and solar energies a reality

In: Balanced Growth

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  • Cornelius Pieper

    (The Boston Consulting Group’s (BCG))

  • Holger Rubel

    (The Boston Consulting Group (BCG))

Abstract

The growth case for using renewable energy remains very much intact, despite the effects of a global economic downturn, and the prospects for wind and solar photovoltaic (PV) power appear particularly strong. To realize this potential, however, these technologies will have to overcome a key hurdle: the challenge posed by their intermittent nature. Unlike other forms of renewable energy, such as hydropower and geothermal energy, the energy generated by wind and solar PV fluctuates. This fluctuation poses a sizable challenge to their integration into the power grid and their widespread adoption as bona fide mainstream power sources.1 While there are several potential answers to the challenges of intermittency, the most viable, we believe, is a credible form of electricity storage.

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  • Cornelius Pieper & Holger Rubel, 2012. "Electricity storage: Making large-scale adoption of wind and solar energies a reality," Management for Professionals, in: Giulia Mennillo & Thomas Schlenzig & Elmar Friedrich (ed.), Balanced Growth, pages 163-181, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:mgmchp:978-3-642-24653-1_11
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-24653-1_11
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