The US looks to expand its battery storage capacity fivefold by 2025

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Even with all the other points of focus in the country at present, the US has been surging ahead with its increase in battery storage capacity, achieving a 240% increase in additions made in Q3 of this year as compared to Q2 and closing in on 1.5 GW of overall battery storage capacity by the end of the year.

Still, not content to rest on their laurels, renewable energy advocates in the US are looking to see this total increase fivefold before the end of 2025, with the aim of seeing a staggering 7.5 GW of storage capacity across the nation’s growing number of solar and wind farms.


California alone has around 500 MW of storage projects currently under construction, in the hopes of supporting an area which has some of the highest energy costs in America. The range of environmental and economic benefits offered by renewable energy has definitely seen it capture the attention of many decision makers across the US.

Felix Maire, a senior analyst at S&P Global Platts Analytics, summed up the recent additions and future projections, saying "Energy storage deployment will increase in 2020, but the real acceleration will start next year."

Hopefully this is just one of many reasons that 2021 will be a lot better than 2020 for all of us!

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