Renewable Natural Gas, Battery Storage to Play Key Roles in Low-Emissions Future
The ability to store intermittent renewable energy from wind and solar and capturing methane emissions from common waste streams to displace natural gas usage are two technologies poised to play a bigger role in a lower carbon future.
While they play separate roles and are at different stages of adoption, energy storage and biogas — also known as renewable natural gas — are poised for growth under increasingly aggressive state and federal climate policies. They also both face similar barriers to more widespread deployment, notably cost and supportive policies.