While it's hard to believe that more than a month has passed
since the 2019 Power & Renewables Summit in Austin, Texas, the
Duane Morris Green IP Blog wanted to make sure to share some of the
key intellectual property takeaways from that conference. The
conference organizers put together a rigorous and thought-provoking
agenda that covered a lot of ground in just two days. The Greentech
Media team and their colleagues at Wood Mackenzie also provided
deep dives into their data, analytics, and forecasting for
renewables.
Here, in no particular order, are four IP takeaways:
- Energy storage will be a dominant
sector of renewable IP growth in the next decade. Energy
storage is the missing link to a 100% renewable grid. There are a
host of technologies under development, including next generation
NMC and Lithium ion batteries, flow batteries, compressed air,
pumped hydro, and block stacking. Since storage is a net drain on
the grid (round trip transmission losses
