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How giant ‘batteries’ in the Earth could slash your electricity bills

A new study—led by MIT graduate student Martin Staadecker—found that large-scale, long-duration energy storage deployment is essential for renewables to reach their full potential. “Battery storage on its own—or what people call short-duration energy storage—is very important. But you can’t just rely on lithium-ion batteries, because it would be very expensive to have enough to actually provide power for an entire week,” states Staadecker.

Texas could become a major producer of another source of renewable energy

Jessika Trancik (Institute for Data, Systems, and Society) weighs in on the developing energy transition infrastructure in Texas and the potential incorporation of green hydrogen: “There's a lot of efforts to try to grow that industry and take it in new, innovative directions.”

Why aren’t we driving hydrogen powered cars yet? There’s a reason EVs won.

MITEI Senior Research Scientist Sergey Paltsev weighs in on the roadblocks facing hydrogen fuel-cell vehicle adoption, stating "The answer is very simple: economics." Among other factors, the lack of fueling infrastructure is keeping these vehicles behind their electric counterparts.