Business Trend + Regulatory Trend. Annual Growth of Grid Connected Battery Storage: 68%

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September 4, 2018

By end of year 2017, US utilities increased battery energy capacity by:

68% total capcity with the installation of longer-duration batteries
to 1.3 gigawatt-hours
31% increase in battery power capacity
75% of the nation’s incremental battery energy capacity was in California
California was also home to 60% of the cumulative energy capacity in 2017

PV Magazine | Grid-connected battery energy capacity grew 68 percent last year