'Changing the game before our eyes': IEA touts surging battery market as critical for global climate goals

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Battery deployment in the power sector is surging to record levels worldwide, but still needs to increase six-fold to meet COP28 2030 climate and energy goals, according to the IEA

Battery deployment in the power sector more than doubled last year, outpacing almost all other clean energy technologies as falling costs, advancing innovation, and supportive industrial policies helped...

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