560: How Long Duration Energy Storage Ensures a Better Electric Grid, with Hugh McDermott, ESS Inc.
Hugh McDermott is the senior vice president for business development and sales for ESS Inc., a provider of long-duration energy storage (LDES) solutions for commercial and industrial (C&I), utility, microgrid, and off-grid applications. In today's podcast, he explains the critical issue of energy storage, which he warns could impede our quest for a clean, green future.
"We can build and have all kinds of generating technologies that can be carbon-free, but we can't go through the night without energy storage," he said.
He suggests LDES — defined by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) as a…
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