The big news this week in energy storage is what is likely to happen next week. Hurricane Sandy, the 18th named storm this year in the Atlantic Basin, is working its way up the East Coast. Current projections show it coming ashore on Tuesday as a Category 1 storm and, more ominously, combining with an intense cold wave moving in from the west. The media is already drawing parallels to the “Perfect Storm†of 1991. A more current analogy, for those interested in energy storage, might be the late October snowstorm of 2011. That storm deprived millions of East Coast electricity consumers of power, some for more than a week, and cost the jobs of several utility executives.
