This story originally appeared on Vox and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The tricky thing about generating electricity is that for the most part, you pretty much have to use it or lose it.

Grid-scale energy storage has the potential to revolutionize the electric grid by making it more adaptable and capable of accommodating intermittent and variable renewable energy sources. In addition, ...

Energy storage for the electrical grid is about to hit the big time. By the reckoning of the International Energy Agency (iea), a forecaster, grid-scale storage is now the fastest-growing of all the ...

Grid operations require a constant balance between demand and supply to maintain stable and desired frequency and voltage levels. Large and continued frequency deviations in the system could damage ...

Texas has always charted its own course, especially when it comes to energy. The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), which manages about 90% of the state's electric load, operates ...

This is a sponsored article brought to you by The University of Sheffield. Across global electricity networks, the shift to renewable energy has fundamentally changed the behavior of power systems.