{"id":3523,"date":"2026-02-20T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T08:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatevdo.com\/?p=3523"},"modified":"2026-04-14T19:32:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T19:32:02","slug":"chart-grid-battery-installations-soared-to-a-new-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatevdo.com\/?p=3523","title":{"rendered":"Chart: Grid battery installations soared to a new high\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"
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More than 13<\/span>\u00a0gigawatts of energy storage was installed across the U.S. last year, per a\u00a0new report<\/a> from the Business Council for Sustainable Energy and BloombergNEF. That\u2019s up from the roughly 12<\/span>\u00a0GW<\/span> installed in\u00a02024<\/span>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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It\u2019s the latest reminder of the meteoric rise of battery storage, a\u00a0quick-to-deploy technology that\u2019s key to cutting emissions from the electricity system. Storage enables the grid to bank electricity when it\u2019s cheap and abundant \u2014 like when surplus solar is generated in the middle of a\u00a0sunny day \u2014 and deploy it when prices are high and electrons are scarce. <\/p>\n

Less than a\u00a0decade ago, the sector was little more than an intriguing possibility. Energy storage in America mostly meant massive, decades-old pumped-hydro storage projects and a\u00a0handful of small lithium-ion battery plants.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In 2017<\/span>, only 500<\/span>\u00a0megawatts of grid battery capacity was online in the U.S. , now, there are individual battery installations larger than 500<\/span>\u00a0MW<\/span>. Still, the sector had big expectations for itself back then: In 2017<\/span>, the Energy Storage Association set a\u00a0goal of reaching 35<\/span>\u00a0GW<\/span> of storage capacity<\/a> by\u00a02025<\/span>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Last year, the sector smashed that goal<\/a>, hitting it in July and ending the year with nearly 45<\/span>\u00a0GW<\/span> of installed capacity.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Increasingly abundant solar power, rising energy demand, and declining battery costs have combined to propel the storage sector to these lofty heights. To date, most utility-scale batteries have been plugged into the grids of Texas and California<\/a>, two solar-soaked states with radically different approaches to encouraging storage growth.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In the coming years, the storage sector has a\u00a0smoother path to continued growth than do renewables.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Yes, it faces some challenges. Federal tax incentives are now contingent on compliance with strict but vague anti-China supply-chain rules. Developers also have to deal with tariffs and increasing local opposition<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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But, unlike for solar and wind, tax credits for storage were spared<\/a> in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act that President Donald Trump signed into law in July. Also unlike solar and wind, the battery industry has not yet attracted much explicit trash-talking from either Trump administration officials or Trump himself. Storage is also increasingly cheap<\/a> and fast<\/a> to\u00a0build.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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These facts, plus the urgent need for new sources of affordable energy as utility bills rise, have the storage industry poised for continued growth in the years to\u00a0come.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

More than 13\u00a0gigawatts of energy storage was installed across the U.S. last year, per a\u00a0new report from the Business Council for Sustainable Energy and BloombergNEF. That\u2019s up from the roughly 12\u00a0GW installed in\u00a02024. It\u2019s the latest reminder of the meteoric rise of battery storage, a\u00a0quick-to-deploy technology that\u2019s key to cutting emissions from the electricity system. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-green-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/climatevdo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/climatevdo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/climatevdo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climatevdo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climatevdo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/climatevdo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3525,"href":"https:\/\/climatevdo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3523\/revisions\/3525"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climatevdo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/climatevdo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climatevdo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climatevdo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}