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Energy storage and management

Energy storage and management

Why we need to tackle renewable energy’s storage problem

26 Apr 2022
Taken from the April 2022 issue of Physics World where it appeared under the headline "The problem with renewables".

Peter Edwards, Peter Dobson and Gari Owen say that net-zero targets can only be met if renewable energy can be stored cost-effectively

Architect render of InterGen’s battery facility
Storage shortfall InterGen’s battery facility currently being built on the Thames Estuary will be the UK’s largest, with 1 GWh capacity. The UK needs 5 TWh of storage to support renewable-energy targets. (Courtesy: InterGen)
On 16 September 1910 the Canadian inventor Reginald A Fessenden, who is best known for his work on r

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Peter Edwards is Emeritus Statutory Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Oxford, Peter Dobson is Emeritus Professor of Engineering Science at the University of Oxford and Gari Owen is a defence, security and technology consultant to government and industry, e-mail peter.dobson@eng.ox.ac.uk
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