Storage will grow at a faster rate than most people believe, and utilities will be at the heart of this growth — as well as the overall energy transition — according to the new head of Europe’s influential electricity industry association Eurelectric.

Kristian Ruby, the former chief policy officer at WindEurope, tells Recharge in a wide-ranging interview that talk of utilities being in a so-called “death spiral” due to the rise of renewables couldn’t be further from the truth.