Electrical grid batteries, such as those planned by Oklahoma Gas and Electric near Enid and Ponca City, are breaking records nationwide….their development that is.
Canary Media reported that more than 13 gigawatts of energy storage was installed last year across the nation. It cited the information in a new report from the Business Council for Sustainable Energy and BloombergNEF. That’s up from the roughly 12 GW installed in 2024.
Some have called it a “meteoric rise” of battery storage, or known as BESS by those doing the installation and construction. The storage allows the grid to bank electricity when it’s cheap and use it when prices are high and electrons are scarce.
In 2017, only 500 megawatts of grid battery capacity was online in the U.S.; now, there are individual battery installations larger than 500 MW, reported Canary.
Still, the sector had big expectations for itself back then: In 2017, the Energy Storage Association set a goal of reaching 35 GW of storage capacity by 2025. Last year, the sector smashed that goal, hitting it in July and ending the year with nearly 45 GW of installed capacity.
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