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As world struggles with energy and climate crises, these batteries can help

As the market for EV batteries expands and evolves, large industrial-scale powerpacks - energy storage systems, or ESS - are being overlooked as a potential solution to this power crunch

Tesla Megapack batteries at the Elkhorn Battery Energy Storage System next to the Vistra Moss Landing natural gas fired power plant in Moss Landing, California. Photo: Bloomberg
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Tesla Megapack batteries at the Elkhorn Battery Energy Storage System next to the Vistra Moss Landing natural gas fired power plant in Moss Landing, California. Photo: Bloomberg

Anjani Trivedi | Bloomberg
The world is struggling with simultaneous energy and climate crises. To solve the first could require undoing all the progress made toward greener power and cleaner air. But it doesn’t have to be that way.

Euphoria for electric cars — and the powerpacks that run them — has obscured a more immediate and distinct need: batteries to run homes and businesses, as countries across the world deal with the repercussions of an ongoing power crisis. Despite the worsening state of energy and rising electricity prices, existing technologies aren’t being put to use. Instead, everyone is just thinking about the steepening