Jan 11, 2026 - Grid scale battery cost reductions - the final nail in the fossil fuel coffin?
Grid-scale batteries have until recently been predominantly used only to stabilize the frequency of electricity supply. But as prices have dropped dramatically in recent years and new chemistries like sodium-ion have come into the mainstream, batteries have started to replace coal power stations and even gas peaker plants. So, is the final death knell now being sounded for the combustion of fossil fuels?