Texas Is About To Overtake California In Battery Storage (electrek.co)
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- News link: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/26/02/24/0043228/texas-is-about-to-overtake-california-in-battery-storage
- Source link: https://electrek.co/2026/02/23/texas-is-about-to-overtake-california-in-battery-storage/
> According to the [2]US Energy Storage Market Outlook Q1 2026 from the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) and Benchmark Mineral Intelligence, installations are now four times higher than totals from just three years ago. The US had a total of 137 GWh of utility-scale storage installed as of 2025, plus 19 GWh of commercial and industrial systems and 9 GWh of residential storage. Analysts expect the growth streak to continue. More than 600 GWh of energy storage is projected to be deployed nationwide by 2030, even as the Trump administration targets clean energy industries.
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> Two-thirds of utility-scale storage installed in 2025 was built in red states, including nine of the top 15 states for new installations. Texas is projected to surpass California as the countryâ(TM)s largest battery storage market in 2026. Standalone battery projects accounted for nearly 30 GWh of new capacity in 2025, while solar-plus-storage installations made up about 20 GWh. Residential storage deployments reached 3.1 GWh last year, a 51% increase year-over-year. Analysts say virtual power plant programs in states such as Massachusetts, Texas, Arizona, and Illinois are helping drive adoption by reducing costs and easing strain during peak demand periods.
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> The supply chain is shifting to support the boom. In 2025, some battery cell manufacturers pivoted production from EV batteries to dedicated stationary storage cells, converting existing lines and adjusting future plans. Lithium-ion cell manufacturing for stationary storage reached more than 21 GWh in 2025, enough to power Houston overnight, according to SEIAâ(TM)s Solar and Storage Supply Chain Dashboard. Meanwhile, US factories now have the capacity to manufacture 69.4 GWh of battery energy storage systems annually.
[1] https://electrek.co/2026/02/23/texas-is-about-to-overtake-california-in-battery-storage/
[2] https://seia.org/research-resources/energy-storage-market-outlook/
Fuck you, PG&E (Score:3)
The power company has consistently worked against home installations and other projects. Also California bureaucracy is horrible. I pray to God that Gavin Newsom does not get the Democratic nomination, because I think even JD Vance could win in that contest.
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Now THAT would be fun to watch!
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> 57 GWh is about one day of power from a typical Westinghouse nuke.
fair enough
> More than 600 GWh of energy storage is projected to be deployed nationwide by 2030
So how many of those Westinghouses are going to be coming online by 2030...
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The number of characters in your post including spaces is countable using 6-bits. This is every bit as relevant to the discussion as what you just wrote.
What's your point? If you're just blindly throwing units out there why not count how many lightbulbs are on in the Library of Congress and how long they burn for to consume the battery at full charge?
If you want to make an actual point you need to formulate it, then justify it with backing of numbers. Blindly spitting out comparisons is irrelevant.
That should irk (Score:3, Funny)
The Orange One, a red state turning more green than a blue one
Now it's just the smart choice. (Score:4, Insightful)
Using solar, wind, and batteries is not green any more.
Now it's just the obvious smart choice.
You can easily discern who is smart, who is dumb...
Verify First. Then speak Green. (Score:2)
> Using solar, wind, and batteries is not green any more. Now it's just the obvious smart choice. You can easily discern who is smart, who is dumb...
So, you’re volunteering to be the test pilot for all new electric aircraft and spacecraft? ‘Cause Crazy Cali Larry is waiting on your smart stamp of approval for that ultralight in his garage he made out of carbon fiber powered by three dozen Dyson hairdryers and a “daycare” government loan.
Don’t worry about the job. Think of the fame! You’ll either go down in infamy, or you’ll go down. In infamy.
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> Now it's just the obvious smart choice.
Since when has obvious or smart had anything to do with what the Orange idiot does? We're talking about a man who violates property rights to keep the world polluted: [1]https://www.npr.org/2026/02/23... [npr.org]
[1] https://www.npr.org/2026/02/23/g-s1-110980/trump-coal-energy-colorado
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In fact, the cheapest mix nowadays is a mix of solar, wind, batteries and natural gas for when there is a solar+wind daily deficit.
I would expect red states to invest in renewable as any other source of energy. It's just established industries who are interested in block competency using a lot of lies about renewables.
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Renewables won on purely economic terms. Cheaper than everything else, by a significant margin, and able to meet the needs of the grid.
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Indeed, most people realise economics rules the day but that won't prevent the Orange One from getting irked
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The Orange One apparently has no idea about economics, otherwise he would not rally so much against the extraordinary ability of the U.S., to sell green printed paper in exchange for really valuable products like steel, oil, cars and electronics, while the U.S. can even set the price of the green printed paper arbitrarily.