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It all depends what you mean by "stores".

In the short term, energy can be stored as ATP (Adenosine TriPhosphate). This is an immediate source of energy for cells and is use and recycled rapidly.

In the medium term, glucose can be considered as a method of 'storing' energy.

Again, if the cell has plenty of glucose, it can be quickly used to create ATP if the cells requires more energy than is available as stored ATP.

In the long term, some cells (or the liver in the human body) can join glucose together to form glycogen. It can then be stored so that if the cell begins to run out of ATP AND Glucose, it will start to break up the Glycogen into Glucose and use this to obtain ATP.

Technically lipids and some other macromolecules (eg proteins) can also be a store of energy as long as they can be converted to glucose.

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