Addressing Battery Energy Storage Risks Crucial to Meeting Clean Energy Goals

As society adapts to a changing climate and responds globally and locally to the undeniable and more frequent impacts of climate change, now more than ever government leaders are accelerating efforts to simultaneously mitigate these impacts and increase the speed of decarbonization. Summer 2023 witnessed more devastating and frequently occurring weather‐related events, including more severe hurricanes and tropical cyclones forming more rapidly and providing humans within their path little time to prepare. Damaging winds, torrential rains, higher storm surge and flash floods, record numbers of wildfires burning out of control—impacting the public health of people thousands of miles away from the fires, and the hottest summer of atmospheric and ocean temperatures ever recorded across the world are now approaching a new normal.