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26 April 2015, Climate News Network: Major changes are in store for electricity industry. As the battle to phase out fossil fuels heats up, finding economically viable ways to store surplus electric power is becoming vital. Inventors are in a race to find the best way of storing electricity to make the most of renewables and cut the use of fossil fuels. Currently, when more power than needed by consumers is produced by sources such as wind turbines or solar panels, some of the electricity is wasted. But that is changing. Governments have realised that one of their biggest challenges in cutting the use of fossil fuels is to store surplus electricity for use at peak times. Read More here