At, I believe an ARPA-E event, one of the companies was a developing of 'bag' storage -- inflating bags at the bottom of the ocean when there is excess energy to provide stabilization of power supplies. Can't, at the moment, recall the company (have their material somewhere ...).  Clearly, this is something that could be associated with offshore wind facilities. Now, that would be dual use of cables, no?

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