Producing large amounts of green hydrogen from excess wind and solar power and using it as energy storage will be vital to keeping electricity costs low in future power grids dominated by variable renewable energy, according to a new scientific study funded by Microsoft tycoon Bill Gates’ venture capital firm Gates Ventures.

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