The US Had a Big Battery Boom Last Year (wired.com)
(Tuesday February 24, 2026 @11:01PM (msmash)
from the charged-up dept.)
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- News link: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/26/02/24/206224/the-us-had-a-big-battery-boom-last-year
- Source link: https://www.wired.com/story/the-us-had-a-big-battery-boom-last-year/
The United States installed [1]a record 57 gigawatt hours of new battery storage on its electric grids in 2025, a nearly 30% increase over the prior year that arrived even as the Trump administration cut tax credits for wind and solar in last summer's One Big Beautiful Bill.
The figures come from a Solar Energy Industries Association report published Monday, which also projects the market will grow another 21% this year by adding 70 gigawatt hours in 2026 alone. Battery tax credits themselves survived the legislation largely intact, and the majority of last year's new installations were stand-alone systems not tied to specific solar projects.
In Texas, solar met more than 15% of electricity demand throughout the summer and beat out coal for the first time, and the SEIA report predicts the state will overtake California this year in total deployed storage. Supply chain restrictions reinforced by the bill and project cancellations could slow the pipeline this year, the report cautions.
[1] https://www.wired.com/story/the-us-had-a-big-battery-boom-last-year/
The figures come from a Solar Energy Industries Association report published Monday, which also projects the market will grow another 21% this year by adding 70 gigawatt hours in 2026 alone. Battery tax credits themselves survived the legislation largely intact, and the majority of last year's new installations were stand-alone systems not tied to specific solar projects.
In Texas, solar met more than 15% of electricity demand throughout the summer and beat out coal for the first time, and the SEIA report predicts the state will overtake California this year in total deployed storage. Supply chain restrictions reinforced by the bill and project cancellations could slow the pipeline this year, the report cautions.
[1] https://www.wired.com/story/the-us-had-a-big-battery-boom-last-year/
The Beautiful Big Battery Boom (Score:2)
by thesjaakspoiler ( 4782965 )
as someone would have called it if he thought he could have taken credit for it.
Slashdot had a big duplicate story boom too (Score:1)
[1]https://hardware.slashdot.org/... [slashdot.org]
[1] https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/26/02/24/0043228/texas-is-about-to-overtake-california-in-battery-storage