Energy
Renewable Resilience
Renewable Resilience
[2/10]
SUMMARY
This playbook addresses the intermittency of wind and solar. By combining long-duration storage (LDES) and enhanced transmission, we can create a reliable, 24/7 renewable power system and solve the final piece of the energy transition puzzle.
Renewable Resilience
[3/10]
CONTEXT
The energy transition is making wind and solar power the backbone of our electricity system. However, these resources are variable by nature, creating a fundamental mismatch between when and where clean energy is generated and when and where it is needed.
Renewable Resilience
[4/10]
PROBLEM
The intermittency of renewables creates critical resilience problems: 1. Temporal Mismatch (Time): Peak solar generation at midday does not align with peak evening demand, leading to instability and wasted energy. 2. Spatial Mismatch (Location): The best renewable resources (windy coasts, sunny deserts) are often located far from population centers. 3. Lack of Long-Term Storage: Existing grid-scale batteries can handle daily fluctuations but cannot store energy for weeks or months to cover seasonal gaps.
Renewable Resilience
[5/10]
SOLUTION
To make a renewable grid reliable 24/7, a portfolio of resilience solutions is required to shift energy across time and space: • Short-Duration Storage: Lithium-ion batteries to balance the grid on an hourly/daily basis. • Long-Duration Energy Storage (LDES): Technologies like green hydrogen, flow batteries, and iron-air batteries to store energy for days, weeks, or months. • Enhanced Transmission: High-voltage direct current (HVDC) lines to move vast amounts of clean energy efficiently over long distances.
Renewable Resilience
[6/10]
CHALLENGES
Scaling these resilience assets faces major obstacles: 1. Cost & Maturity of LDES: Many long-duration storage technologies are still pre-commercial and face high costs and technical hurdles to scale. 2. Infrastructure Permitting: Building new, large-scale transmission lines is a slow, expensive process often delayed by regulatory and public opposition. 3. Market Uncertainty: The lack of clear market rules and revenue streams for providing long-duration storage or transmission services makes financing these large projects difficult.
Renewable Resilience
[7/10]
TRENDS
The private sector is racing to commercialize these critical solutions: • Commercializing LDES: Startups like Form Energy (iron-air) and ESS Inc. (iron flow) are deploying their first commercial-scale, long-duration batteries. • Large-Scale Green Hydrogen: Companies like Nel and ITM Power are building giga-scale electrolyzer factories to drive down the cost of producing green hydrogen for storage. • Hybrid Power Plants: Developers like NextEra Energy and Ørsted are now building new wind and solar farms with integrated battery storage, creating dispatchable renewable assets.
Renewable Resilience
[8/10]
OPPORTUNITY
Solving the resilience problem unlocks the full potential of renewable energy. The global energy storage market alone is a multi-trillion dollar opportunity by 2050. These technologies eliminate the need for fossil fuel backup, ensure grid stability, and enable a 100% renewable energy system.
Renewable Resilience
[9/10]
THE NEED
To build a resilient, renewable-powered future: • Policymakers must create specific, long-term market incentives (e.g., capacity markets) that properly value and procure long-duration storage and transmission. • Investors must provide patient capital to help LDES technologies scale and to fund the massive upfront cost of new transmission infrastructure. • Grid Operators must evolve their planning processes to co-optimize generation, storage, and transmission assets in a holistic way.
Renewable Resilience
[10/10]
ACT NOW
Join our community of founders and investors at Evolvia unlocking exponential impact in this and several other emergent spaces.
Renewable Resilience
[2/10]
SUMMARY
This playbook addresses the intermittency of wind and solar. By combining long-duration storage (LDES) and enhanced transmission, we can create a reliable, 24/7 renewable power system and solve the final piece of the energy transition puzzle.
Renewable Resilience
[3/10]
CONTEXT
The energy transition is making wind and solar power the backbone of our electricity system. However, these resources are variable by nature, creating a fundamental mismatch between when and where clean energy is generated and when and where it is needed.
Renewable Resilience
[4/10]
PROBLEM
The intermittency of renewables creates critical resilience problems: 1. Temporal Mismatch (Time): Peak solar generation at midday does not align with peak evening demand, leading to instability and wasted energy. 2. Spatial Mismatch (Location): The best renewable resources (windy coasts, sunny deserts) are often located far from population centers. 3. Lack of Long-Term Storage: Existing grid-scale batteries can handle daily fluctuations but cannot store energy for weeks or months to cover seasonal gaps.
Renewable Resilience
[5/10]
SOLUTION
To make a renewable grid reliable 24/7, a portfolio of resilience solutions is required to shift energy across time and space: • Short-Duration Storage: Lithium-ion batteries to balance the grid on an hourly/daily basis. • Long-Duration Energy Storage (LDES): Technologies like green hydrogen, flow batteries, and iron-air batteries to store energy for days, weeks, or months. • Enhanced Transmission: High-voltage direct current (HVDC) lines to move vast amounts of clean energy efficiently over long distances.
Renewable Resilience
[6/10]
CHALLENGES
Scaling these resilience assets faces major obstacles: 1. Cost & Maturity of LDES: Many long-duration storage technologies are still pre-commercial and face high costs and technical hurdles to scale. 2. Infrastructure Permitting: Building new, large-scale transmission lines is a slow, expensive process often delayed by regulatory and public opposition. 3. Market Uncertainty: The lack of clear market rules and revenue streams for providing long-duration storage or transmission services makes financing these large projects difficult.
Renewable Resilience
[7/10]
TRENDS
The private sector is racing to commercialize these critical solutions: • Commercializing LDES: Startups like Form Energy (iron-air) and ESS Inc. (iron flow) are deploying their first commercial-scale, long-duration batteries. • Large-Scale Green Hydrogen: Companies like Nel and ITM Power are building giga-scale electrolyzer factories to drive down the cost of producing green hydrogen for storage. • Hybrid Power Plants: Developers like NextEra Energy and Ørsted are now building new wind and solar farms with integrated battery storage, creating dispatchable renewable assets.
Renewable Resilience
[8/10]
OPPORTUNITY
Solving the resilience problem unlocks the full potential of renewable energy. The global energy storage market alone is a multi-trillion dollar opportunity by 2050. These technologies eliminate the need for fossil fuel backup, ensure grid stability, and enable a 100% renewable energy system.
Renewable Resilience
[9/10]
THE NEED
To build a resilient, renewable-powered future: • Policymakers must create specific, long-term market incentives (e.g., capacity markets) that properly value and procure long-duration storage and transmission. • Investors must provide patient capital to help LDES technologies scale and to fund the massive upfront cost of new transmission infrastructure. • Grid Operators must evolve their planning processes to co-optimize generation, storage, and transmission assets in a holistic way.
Renewable Resilience
[10/10]
ACT NOW
Join our community of founders and investors at Evolvia unlocking exponential impact in this and several other emergent spaces.
Renewable Resilience
[2/10]
SUMMARY
This playbook addresses the intermittency of wind and solar. By combining long-duration storage (LDES) and enhanced transmission, we can create a reliable, 24/7 renewable power system and solve the final piece of the energy transition puzzle.
Renewable Resilience
[3/10]
CONTEXT
The energy transition is making wind and solar power the backbone of our electricity system. However, these resources are variable by nature, creating a fundamental mismatch between when and where clean energy is generated and when and where it is needed.
Renewable Resilience
[4/10]
PROBLEM
The intermittency of renewables creates critical resilience problems: 1. Temporal Mismatch (Time): Peak solar generation at midday does not align with peak evening demand, leading to instability and wasted energy. 2. Spatial Mismatch (Location): The best renewable resources (windy coasts, sunny deserts) are often located far from population centers. 3. Lack of Long-Term Storage: Existing grid-scale batteries can handle daily fluctuations but cannot store energy for weeks or months to cover seasonal gaps.
Renewable Resilience
[5/10]
SOLUTION
To make a renewable grid reliable 24/7, a portfolio of resilience solutions is required to shift energy across time and space: • Short-Duration Storage: Lithium-ion batteries to balance the grid on an hourly/daily basis. • Long-Duration Energy Storage (LDES): Technologies like green hydrogen, flow batteries, and iron-air batteries to store energy for days, weeks, or months. • Enhanced Transmission: High-voltage direct current (HVDC) lines to move vast amounts of clean energy efficiently over long distances.
Renewable Resilience
[6/10]
CHALLENGES
Scaling these resilience assets faces major obstacles: 1. Cost & Maturity of LDES: Many long-duration storage technologies are still pre-commercial and face high costs and technical hurdles to scale. 2. Infrastructure Permitting: Building new, large-scale transmission lines is a slow, expensive process often delayed by regulatory and public opposition. 3. Market Uncertainty: The lack of clear market rules and revenue streams for providing long-duration storage or transmission services makes financing these large projects difficult.
Renewable Resilience
[7/10]
TRENDS
The private sector is racing to commercialize these critical solutions: • Commercializing LDES: Startups like Form Energy (iron-air) and ESS Inc. (iron flow) are deploying their first commercial-scale, long-duration batteries. • Large-Scale Green Hydrogen: Companies like Nel and ITM Power are building giga-scale electrolyzer factories to drive down the cost of producing green hydrogen for storage. • Hybrid Power Plants: Developers like NextEra Energy and Ørsted are now building new wind and solar farms with integrated battery storage, creating dispatchable renewable assets.
Renewable Resilience
[8/10]
OPPORTUNITY
Solving the resilience problem unlocks the full potential of renewable energy. The global energy storage market alone is a multi-trillion dollar opportunity by 2050. These technologies eliminate the need for fossil fuel backup, ensure grid stability, and enable a 100% renewable energy system.
Renewable Resilience
[9/10]
THE NEED
To build a resilient, renewable-powered future: • Policymakers must create specific, long-term market incentives (e.g., capacity markets) that properly value and procure long-duration storage and transmission. • Investors must provide patient capital to help LDES technologies scale and to fund the massive upfront cost of new transmission infrastructure. • Grid Operators must evolve their planning processes to co-optimize generation, storage, and transmission assets in a holistic way.
Renewable Resilience
[10/10]
ACT NOW
Join our community of founders and investors at Evolvia unlocking exponential impact in this and several other emergent spaces.
Renewable Resilience
[2/10]
SUMMARY
This playbook addresses the intermittency of wind and solar. By combining long-duration storage (LDES) and enhanced transmission, we can create a reliable, 24/7 renewable power system and solve the final piece of the energy transition puzzle.
Renewable Resilience
[3/10]
CONTEXT
The energy transition is making wind and solar power the backbone of our electricity system. However, these resources are variable by nature, creating a fundamental mismatch between when and where clean energy is generated and when and where it is needed.
Renewable Resilience
[4/10]
PROBLEM
The intermittency of renewables creates critical resilience problems: 1. Temporal Mismatch (Time): Peak solar generation at midday does not align with peak evening demand, leading to instability and wasted energy. 2. Spatial Mismatch (Location): The best renewable resources (windy coasts, sunny deserts) are often located far from population centers. 3. Lack of Long-Term Storage: Existing grid-scale batteries can handle daily fluctuations but cannot store energy for weeks or months to cover seasonal gaps.
Renewable Resilience
[5/10]
SOLUTION
To make a renewable grid reliable 24/7, a portfolio of resilience solutions is required to shift energy across time and space: • Short-Duration Storage: Lithium-ion batteries to balance the grid on an hourly/daily basis. • Long-Duration Energy Storage (LDES): Technologies like green hydrogen, flow batteries, and iron-air batteries to store energy for days, weeks, or months. • Enhanced Transmission: High-voltage direct current (HVDC) lines to move vast amounts of clean energy efficiently over long distances.
Renewable Resilience
[6/10]
CHALLENGES
Scaling these resilience assets faces major obstacles: 1. Cost & Maturity of LDES: Many long-duration storage technologies are still pre-commercial and face high costs and technical hurdles to scale. 2. Infrastructure Permitting: Building new, large-scale transmission lines is a slow, expensive process often delayed by regulatory and public opposition. 3. Market Uncertainty: The lack of clear market rules and revenue streams for providing long-duration storage or transmission services makes financing these large projects difficult.
Renewable Resilience
[7/10]
TRENDS
The private sector is racing to commercialize these critical solutions: • Commercializing LDES: Startups like Form Energy (iron-air) and ESS Inc. (iron flow) are deploying their first commercial-scale, long-duration batteries. • Large-Scale Green Hydrogen: Companies like Nel and ITM Power are building giga-scale electrolyzer factories to drive down the cost of producing green hydrogen for storage. • Hybrid Power Plants: Developers like NextEra Energy and Ørsted are now building new wind and solar farms with integrated battery storage, creating dispatchable renewable assets.
Renewable Resilience
[8/10]
OPPORTUNITY
Solving the resilience problem unlocks the full potential of renewable energy. The global energy storage market alone is a multi-trillion dollar opportunity by 2050. These technologies eliminate the need for fossil fuel backup, ensure grid stability, and enable a 100% renewable energy system.
Renewable Resilience
[9/10]
THE NEED
To build a resilient, renewable-powered future: • Policymakers must create specific, long-term market incentives (e.g., capacity markets) that properly value and procure long-duration storage and transmission. • Investors must provide patient capital to help LDES technologies scale and to fund the massive upfront cost of new transmission infrastructure. • Grid Operators must evolve their planning processes to co-optimize generation, storage, and transmission assets in a holistic way.
Renewable Resilience
[10/10]
ACT NOW
Join our community of founders and investors at Evolvia unlocking exponential impact in this and several other emergent spaces.
Renewable Resilience
[2/10]
SUMMARY
This playbook addresses the intermittency of wind and solar. By combining long-duration storage (LDES) and enhanced transmission, we can create a reliable, 24/7 renewable power system and solve the final piece of the energy transition puzzle.
Renewable Resilience
[3/10]
CONTEXT
The energy transition is making wind and solar power the backbone of our electricity system. However, these resources are variable by nature, creating a fundamental mismatch between when and where clean energy is generated and when and where it is needed.
Renewable Resilience
[4/10]
PROBLEM
The intermittency of renewables creates critical resilience problems: 1. Temporal Mismatch (Time): Peak solar generation at midday does not align with peak evening demand, leading to instability and wasted energy. 2. Spatial Mismatch (Location): The best renewable resources (windy coasts, sunny deserts) are often located far from population centers. 3. Lack of Long-Term Storage: Existing grid-scale batteries can handle daily fluctuations but cannot store energy for weeks or months to cover seasonal gaps.
Renewable Resilience
[5/10]
SOLUTION
To make a renewable grid reliable 24/7, a portfolio of resilience solutions is required to shift energy across time and space: • Short-Duration Storage: Lithium-ion batteries to balance the grid on an hourly/daily basis. • Long-Duration Energy Storage (LDES): Technologies like green hydrogen, flow batteries, and iron-air batteries to store energy for days, weeks, or months. • Enhanced Transmission: High-voltage direct current (HVDC) lines to move vast amounts of clean energy efficiently over long distances.
Renewable Resilience
[6/10]
CHALLENGES
Scaling these resilience assets faces major obstacles: 1. Cost & Maturity of LDES: Many long-duration storage technologies are still pre-commercial and face high costs and technical hurdles to scale. 2. Infrastructure Permitting: Building new, large-scale transmission lines is a slow, expensive process often delayed by regulatory and public opposition. 3. Market Uncertainty: The lack of clear market rules and revenue streams for providing long-duration storage or transmission services makes financing these large projects difficult.
Renewable Resilience
[7/10]
TRENDS
The private sector is racing to commercialize these critical solutions: • Commercializing LDES: Startups like Form Energy (iron-air) and ESS Inc. (iron flow) are deploying their first commercial-scale, long-duration batteries. • Large-Scale Green Hydrogen: Companies like Nel and ITM Power are building giga-scale electrolyzer factories to drive down the cost of producing green hydrogen for storage. • Hybrid Power Plants: Developers like NextEra Energy and Ørsted are now building new wind and solar farms with integrated battery storage, creating dispatchable renewable assets.
Renewable Resilience
[8/10]
OPPORTUNITY
Solving the resilience problem unlocks the full potential of renewable energy. The global energy storage market alone is a multi-trillion dollar opportunity by 2050. These technologies eliminate the need for fossil fuel backup, ensure grid stability, and enable a 100% renewable energy system.
Renewable Resilience
[9/10]
THE NEED
To build a resilient, renewable-powered future: • Policymakers must create specific, long-term market incentives (e.g., capacity markets) that properly value and procure long-duration storage and transmission. • Investors must provide patient capital to help LDES technologies scale and to fund the massive upfront cost of new transmission infrastructure. • Grid Operators must evolve their planning processes to co-optimize generation, storage, and transmission assets in a holistic way.
Renewable Resilience
[10/10]
ACT NOW
Join our community of founders and investors at Evolvia unlocking exponential impact in this and several other emergent spaces.
Renewable Resilience
[2/10]
SUMMARY
This playbook addresses the intermittency of wind and solar. By combining long-duration storage (LDES) and enhanced transmission, we can create a reliable, 24/7 renewable power system and solve the final piece of the energy transition puzzle.
Renewable Resilience
[3/10]
CONTEXT
The energy transition is making wind and solar power the backbone of our electricity system. However, these resources are variable by nature, creating a fundamental mismatch between when and where clean energy is generated and when and where it is needed.
Renewable Resilience
[4/10]
PROBLEM
The intermittency of renewables creates critical resilience problems: 1. Temporal Mismatch (Time): Peak solar generation at midday does not align with peak evening demand, leading to instability and wasted energy. 2. Spatial Mismatch (Location): The best renewable resources (windy coasts, sunny deserts) are often located far from population centers. 3. Lack of Long-Term Storage: Existing grid-scale batteries can handle daily fluctuations but cannot store energy for weeks or months to cover seasonal gaps.
Renewable Resilience
[5/10]
SOLUTION
To make a renewable grid reliable 24/7, a portfolio of resilience solutions is required to shift energy across time and space: • Short-Duration Storage: Lithium-ion batteries to balance the grid on an hourly/daily basis. • Long-Duration Energy Storage (LDES): Technologies like green hydrogen, flow batteries, and iron-air batteries to store energy for days, weeks, or months. • Enhanced Transmission: High-voltage direct current (HVDC) lines to move vast amounts of clean energy efficiently over long distances.
Renewable Resilience
[6/10]
CHALLENGES
Scaling these resilience assets faces major obstacles: 1. Cost & Maturity of LDES: Many long-duration storage technologies are still pre-commercial and face high costs and technical hurdles to scale. 2. Infrastructure Permitting: Building new, large-scale transmission lines is a slow, expensive process often delayed by regulatory and public opposition. 3. Market Uncertainty: The lack of clear market rules and revenue streams for providing long-duration storage or transmission services makes financing these large projects difficult.
Renewable Resilience
[7/10]
TRENDS
The private sector is racing to commercialize these critical solutions: • Commercializing LDES: Startups like Form Energy (iron-air) and ESS Inc. (iron flow) are deploying their first commercial-scale, long-duration batteries. • Large-Scale Green Hydrogen: Companies like Nel and ITM Power are building giga-scale electrolyzer factories to drive down the cost of producing green hydrogen for storage. • Hybrid Power Plants: Developers like NextEra Energy and Ørsted are now building new wind and solar farms with integrated battery storage, creating dispatchable renewable assets.
Renewable Resilience
[8/10]
OPPORTUNITY
Solving the resilience problem unlocks the full potential of renewable energy. The global energy storage market alone is a multi-trillion dollar opportunity by 2050. These technologies eliminate the need for fossil fuel backup, ensure grid stability, and enable a 100% renewable energy system.
Renewable Resilience
[9/10]
THE NEED
To build a resilient, renewable-powered future: • Policymakers must create specific, long-term market incentives (e.g., capacity markets) that properly value and procure long-duration storage and transmission. • Investors must provide patient capital to help LDES technologies scale and to fund the massive upfront cost of new transmission infrastructure. • Grid Operators must evolve their planning processes to co-optimize generation, storage, and transmission assets in a holistic way.
Renewable Resilience
[10/10]
ACT NOW
Join our community of founders and investors at Evolvia unlocking exponential impact in this and several other emergent spaces.
Renewable Resilience
[2/10]
SUMMARY
This playbook addresses the intermittency of wind and solar. By combining long-duration storage (LDES) and enhanced transmission, we can create a reliable, 24/7 renewable power system and solve the final piece of the energy transition puzzle.
Renewable Resilience
[3/10]
CONTEXT
The energy transition is making wind and solar power the backbone of our electricity system. However, these resources are variable by nature, creating a fundamental mismatch between when and where clean energy is generated and when and where it is needed.
Renewable Resilience
[4/10]
PROBLEM
The intermittency of renewables creates critical resilience problems: 1. Temporal Mismatch (Time): Peak solar generation at midday does not align with peak evening demand, leading to instability and wasted energy. 2. Spatial Mismatch (Location): The best renewable resources (windy coasts, sunny deserts) are often located far from population centers. 3. Lack of Long-Term Storage: Existing grid-scale batteries can handle daily fluctuations but cannot store energy for weeks or months to cover seasonal gaps.
Renewable Resilience
[5/10]
SOLUTION
To make a renewable grid reliable 24/7, a portfolio of resilience solutions is required to shift energy across time and space: • Short-Duration Storage: Lithium-ion batteries to balance the grid on an hourly/daily basis. • Long-Duration Energy Storage (LDES): Technologies like green hydrogen, flow batteries, and iron-air batteries to store energy for days, weeks, or months. • Enhanced Transmission: High-voltage direct current (HVDC) lines to move vast amounts of clean energy efficiently over long distances.
Renewable Resilience
[6/10]
CHALLENGES
Scaling these resilience assets faces major obstacles: 1. Cost & Maturity of LDES: Many long-duration storage technologies are still pre-commercial and face high costs and technical hurdles to scale. 2. Infrastructure Permitting: Building new, large-scale transmission lines is a slow, expensive process often delayed by regulatory and public opposition. 3. Market Uncertainty: The lack of clear market rules and revenue streams for providing long-duration storage or transmission services makes financing these large projects difficult.
Renewable Resilience
[7/10]
TRENDS
The private sector is racing to commercialize these critical solutions: • Commercializing LDES: Startups like Form Energy (iron-air) and ESS Inc. (iron flow) are deploying their first commercial-scale, long-duration batteries. • Large-Scale Green Hydrogen: Companies like Nel and ITM Power are building giga-scale electrolyzer factories to drive down the cost of producing green hydrogen for storage. • Hybrid Power Plants: Developers like NextEra Energy and Ørsted are now building new wind and solar farms with integrated battery storage, creating dispatchable renewable assets.
Renewable Resilience
[8/10]
OPPORTUNITY
Solving the resilience problem unlocks the full potential of renewable energy. The global energy storage market alone is a multi-trillion dollar opportunity by 2050. These technologies eliminate the need for fossil fuel backup, ensure grid stability, and enable a 100% renewable energy system.
Renewable Resilience
[9/10]
THE NEED
To build a resilient, renewable-powered future: • Policymakers must create specific, long-term market incentives (e.g., capacity markets) that properly value and procure long-duration storage and transmission. • Investors must provide patient capital to help LDES technologies scale and to fund the massive upfront cost of new transmission infrastructure. • Grid Operators must evolve their planning processes to co-optimize generation, storage, and transmission assets in a holistic way.
Renewable Resilience
[10/10]
ACT NOW
Join our community of founders and investors at Evolvia unlocking exponential impact in this and several other emergent spaces.
Renewable Resilience
[2/10]
SUMMARY
This playbook addresses the intermittency of wind and solar. By combining long-duration storage (LDES) and enhanced transmission, we can create a reliable, 24/7 renewable power system and solve the final piece of the energy transition puzzle.
Renewable Resilience
[3/10]
CONTEXT
The energy transition is making wind and solar power the backbone of our electricity system. However, these resources are variable by nature, creating a fundamental mismatch between when and where clean energy is generated and when and where it is needed.
Renewable Resilience
[4/10]
PROBLEM
The intermittency of renewables creates critical resilience problems: 1. Temporal Mismatch (Time): Peak solar generation at midday does not align with peak evening demand, leading to instability and wasted energy. 2. Spatial Mismatch (Location): The best renewable resources (windy coasts, sunny deserts) are often located far from population centers. 3. Lack of Long-Term Storage: Existing grid-scale batteries can handle daily fluctuations but cannot store energy for weeks or months to cover seasonal gaps.
Renewable Resilience
[5/10]
SOLUTION
To make a renewable grid reliable 24/7, a portfolio of resilience solutions is required to shift energy across time and space: • Short-Duration Storage: Lithium-ion batteries to balance the grid on an hourly/daily basis. • Long-Duration Energy Storage (LDES): Technologies like green hydrogen, flow batteries, and iron-air batteries to store energy for days, weeks, or months. • Enhanced Transmission: High-voltage direct current (HVDC) lines to move vast amounts of clean energy efficiently over long distances.
Renewable Resilience
[6/10]
CHALLENGES
Scaling these resilience assets faces major obstacles: 1. Cost & Maturity of LDES: Many long-duration storage technologies are still pre-commercial and face high costs and technical hurdles to scale. 2. Infrastructure Permitting: Building new, large-scale transmission lines is a slow, expensive process often delayed by regulatory and public opposition. 3. Market Uncertainty: The lack of clear market rules and revenue streams for providing long-duration storage or transmission services makes financing these large projects difficult.
Renewable Resilience
[7/10]
TRENDS
The private sector is racing to commercialize these critical solutions: • Commercializing LDES: Startups like Form Energy (iron-air) and ESS Inc. (iron flow) are deploying their first commercial-scale, long-duration batteries. • Large-Scale Green Hydrogen: Companies like Nel and ITM Power are building giga-scale electrolyzer factories to drive down the cost of producing green hydrogen for storage. • Hybrid Power Plants: Developers like NextEra Energy and Ørsted are now building new wind and solar farms with integrated battery storage, creating dispatchable renewable assets.
Renewable Resilience
[8/10]
OPPORTUNITY
Solving the resilience problem unlocks the full potential of renewable energy. The global energy storage market alone is a multi-trillion dollar opportunity by 2050. These technologies eliminate the need for fossil fuel backup, ensure grid stability, and enable a 100% renewable energy system.
Renewable Resilience
[9/10]
THE NEED
To build a resilient, renewable-powered future: • Policymakers must create specific, long-term market incentives (e.g., capacity markets) that properly value and procure long-duration storage and transmission. • Investors must provide patient capital to help LDES technologies scale and to fund the massive upfront cost of new transmission infrastructure. • Grid Operators must evolve their planning processes to co-optimize generation, storage, and transmission assets in a holistic way.
Renewable Resilience
[10/10]
ACT NOW
Join our community of founders and investors at Evolvia unlocking exponential impact in this and several other emergent spaces.
This playbook addresses the intermittency of wind and solar. By combining long-duration storage (LDES) and enhanced transmission, we can create a reliable, 24/7 renewable power system and solve the final piece of the energy transition puzzle.
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