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Three weeks ago, a US agency sent the clearest signal yet that fossil fuels’ days are numbered.
True enough, the carbon-burning economy has been declared to be on its death bed umpteenth times before. But this came with a time frame related to the ultimate killer: the battery. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ruled that so-called energy-storage companies such as Tesla Inc. and AES Corp. can compete against traditional power plants in US wholesale markets by the end of 2020.
“This is a watershed event,” said Joel Eisen, an energy law professor at the University of Richmond, not unlike the time when
