“A resource in and of itself”: Grid-scale Batteries and the Politics of Storage

From Tesla’s experimental ‘Virtual Power Plants’ to the US’s Energy Storage Grand Challenge, grid-scale batteries – which attach to the electricity grid to buffer supply and demand – are sites of intensifying research, speculation and legislation. They are increasingly positioned as a transformative...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: White-Nockleby, Caroline Celeste
Other Authors: Helmreich, Stefan
Format: Thesis
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2023
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/150147
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1140-0937