In the dying days of last week, just after we had put our latest issue together, a group of “energy storage” players in Europe expressed their dismay at European Union policy and its complete lack of targets and funding around energy storage. The complaints were addressed in an Open Letter to policy makers and the media, and it demonstrated what we all know only too clearly, that politicians do not understand zero emissions targets and the science around them. The organizations who served as signatories on the Open Letter included BESS supplier Fluence, investor Gore Street Capital, the UK’s Gresham House, Swiss energy storage provider MW Storage, UK renewables player Zenobē, the Spanish, Irish and German Energy Storage Associations, the…