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High-stakes bets for the future of the grid | Edward Yang for Latitude Media

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Why the energy industry should pay more attention to grid tech startups

Today’s electric grid faces a confluence of trends that will dramatically change how it needs to be built and managed for the next several decades. New forecasts project total U.S. electricity demand rising by nearly 16% in the next five years , after growing less than 2% in any five-year period since the late 1990s. Over 200 gigawatts of capacity from distributed energy resources will be added to the grid through 2028; these more diverse and decentralized sources will represent almost three-quarters of the capacity additions from bulk generation anticipated in the same period. And with extrem

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