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Energy investment: The many lives of energy storage

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Energy storage offers potential to support a changing electricity sector, but investors remain uncertain about its attractiveness. Analysis now shows that this can be overcome for battery technology by providing more than one storage service in a single facility.

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  1. Elena Fumagalli is at the Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, via Lambruschini 4/b, 20156 Milan, Italy.,

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Fumagalli, E. Energy investment: The many lives of energy storage. Nat Energy 1, 16096 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nenergy.2016.96

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