Utilities are advancing an intelligent, sustainable energy future. As they act today to move towards a future state, utilities are tapping into emerging technologies, processes and business models to navigate energy sustainability.

As an adjunct to the smart grid revolution, utilities are looking to come on line with community-based energy storage capabilities. This presents a tremendous market for energy storage technology developers and vendors. So what are leading utilities looking at and for?

Energy storages technologies – existing and emerging – are finding their places within the emerging ‘smart’ energy future. Ultimately no one technology will dominate a more renewable, distributed and interconnected energy system.