A software product manager commits to the renewable energy transition
This is the story of my path into the renewable energy space and how I am navigating my career for the next decade.
Long-Duration Energy Storage
It has become much less expensive to build large solar and wind farms to feed significant power into nearby grids, even in remote areas of the planet. But these cleaner energy sources are intermittent so they must be paired with long term energy storage - at grid scale.
Pumped-storage hydro power is just a giant battery!
What I learned at Cabin Creek near Georgetown Colorado is that pumped-storage hydropower is one of the most efficient, “rechargeable” batteries we have ever created.