It’s been an incredible couple of weeks for the energy sector’s pet technology: energy storage. The uptick in investment announcements, strategic partnership agreements and product launches has been truly remarkable and reflects a growing community, including high net worth “angels”, entrepreneurs and technology behemoths who are increasingly willing to place bets on energy storage playing a significant role in our future energy system – a much bigger and more varied role than many industry experts might have predicted even a short year ago, and certainly much sooner than most would have guessed.