US grid-scale power storage sees document installations, deployments in Q3

(Reuters) – U.S. power storage market noticed document progress within the third quarter with 3,806 megawatts (MW) price installations and 9,931 megawatt-hours (MWh) deployed, Wooden Mackenzie mentioned in a report on Thursday.

This was a 80% and 58% improve, respectively, from a yr earlier, the report, which was developed in partnership with the American Clear Energy Affiliation, confirmed.

WHY ITS IMPORTANT

U.S. grid connection queues have been persevering with to rise as community operators grapple with an enormous variety of clear energy functions and dwindling transmission capability.

The Vitality Division mentioned its Nationwide Transmission Planning Research discovered the U.S. might want to double or triple transmission capability within the three a long time to 2050 in an effort to meet demand progress and reliability wants.

Grid-scale installations are projected to greater than double by 2028 to succeed in a complete quantity of 63.7 gigawatts (GW), and residential putting in might attain 10 GW of storage in the identical time interval, as per the report.

CONTEXT

Grid-scale power storage deployments have been led by Texas and California – Texas added almost 1.7 GW and California added about 6 GWh.

The report by Wooden Mackenzie and ACP additionally confirmed the residential market set an all-time excessive final quarter, with 346 MW of storage added – a 63% improve in contrast with the final quarter.

KEY QUOTES

“General, storage installations will develop 30% in 2024, signaling the trade’s strongest yr but. Nevertheless, will probably be troublesome to maintain this tempo. Between 2025 and 2028 we’re projecting an annual common progress charge of 10%, as early-stage improvement constraints proceed,” mentioned Nina Rangel, senior analysis analyst at Wooden Mackenzie.

“…any main shifts in tax incentives or elevated tariffs might outweigh advantages and have an effect on new challenge improvement,” mentioned Allison Weis, international head of storage for Wooden Mackenzie.