The global energy storage sector is heating up to be “clean energy’s next trillion-dollar business.” As more nations around the world become increasingly reliant on renewable energies to power their grids and the AI boom pushes clean energy expansion as part of an all-the-above approach to ramping up energy production as fast as possible, energy storage is becoming an increasingly critical component of energy security at local, national, and global scales. Researchers have estimated that a net-zero energy future will require a…