While building new transmission and distribution infrastructure can be a multiyear process, storage can be deployed quickly, Lin pointed out.

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The grid needs short-, medium-, and longer-term storage to run smoothly, and car batteries could most easily meet the short-term need, a process called frequency regulation.

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State help will be limited to reforming the lengthy licensing process, streamlining the planning system and levying a charge on nuclear operators to pay for decommissioning and waste storage.

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