{"id":73437,"date":"2017-10-23T18:42:18","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T01:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/in-5-years-batteries-will-blanket-the-u-s-duke-executive-says"},"modified":"2017-10-23T18:42:18","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T01:42:18","slug":"in-5-years-batteries-will-blanket-the-u-s-duke-executive-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/in-5-years-batteries-will-blanket-the-u-s-duke-executive-says","title":{"rendered":"In 5 Years, Batteries Will Blanket The U.S., Duke Executive Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/in-5-years-batteries-will-blanket-the-u-s-duke-executive-says.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Five years. That\u2019s how soon batteries can be expected to sprout all over the electric grid as utilities and homeowners drop in on a wave of falling prices, a Duke Energy executive said in Chicago Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s going to be a lot of excitement around batteries in the next five years. And I would say that the country will get blanketed with projects,\u201d said Spencer Hanes, a managing director of business development with the Charlotte, North Carolina-based utility.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the way that the cost curves are coming down it\u2019s a big opportunity for all of us to deliver what customers want.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/jeffmcmahon\/2017\/10\/22\/in-5-years-batteries-will-blanket-the-u-s-duke-executive-says\/#2f380d9d6f9f\">https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/jeffmcmahon\/2017\/10\/22\/in-5-yea...380d9d6f9f<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five years. That\u2019s how soon batteries can be expected to sprout all over the electric grid as utilities and homeowners drop in on a wave of falling prices, a Duke Energy executive said in Chicago Thursday. \u201cThere\u2019s going to be a lot of excitement around batteries in the next five years. And I would say [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}