Planned battery storage capacity additions vs Carbon intensity of electricity generation in United States
Planned battery storage capacity additions and Carbon intensity of electricity generation in United States, drawn over time. No period has an observed value for both, so the two are not set side by side.
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United States, annual figures, spaced by time . Different units, drawn on separate scales and clipped to the years both series publish; earlier history stays on each indicator’s own page. Read the values, not the heights.
Planned battery storage capacity additions
Unit: gigawatts · 2 observations
Forecast: dashed line, hollow markers, shaded band
Carbon intensity of electricity generation
Unit: gCO2e/kWh · 26 observations
Estimates are listed as such in the table below
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| Period | Type | Value |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Estimate | 607.5 gCO2e/kWh |
| 2001 | Estimate | 609.9 gCO2e/kWh |
| 2002 | Estimate | 600.7 gCO2e/kWh |
| 2003 | Estimate | 606.3 gCO2e/kWh |
| 2004 | Estimate | 602.4 gCO2e/kWh |
| 2005 | Estimate | 604.4 gCO2e/kWh |
| 2006 | Estimate | 595.5 gCO2e/kWh |
| 2007 | Estimate | 598.5 gCO2e/kWh |
| 2008 | Estimate | 591.3 gCO2e/kWh |
| 2009 | Estimate | 565 gCO2e/kWh |
| 2010 | Estimate | 570.8 gCO2e/kWh |
| 2011 | Estimate | 550.5 gCO2e/kWh |
| 2012 | Estimate | 532.8 gCO2e/kWh |
| 2013 | Estimate | 533.5 gCO2e/kWh |
| 2014 | Estimate | 529.5 gCO2e/kWh |
| 2015 | Estimate | 504.9 gCO2e/kWh |
| 2016 | Estimate | 483.4 gCO2e/kWh |
| 2017 | Estimate | 469.1 gCO2e/kWh |
| 2018 | Estimate | 462.6 gCO2e/kWh |
| 2019 | Estimate | 439.4 gCO2e/kWh |
| 2020 | Estimate | 411.7 gCO2e/kWh |
| 2021 | Estimate | 423.8 gCO2e/kWh |
| 2022 | Estimate | 410.4 gCO2e/kWh |
| 2023 | Estimate | 392.9 gCO2e/kWh |
| 2024 | Estimate | 383.8 gCO2e/kWh |
| 2025 | Estimate | 384.4 gCO2e/kWh |
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The two series do not publish a figure for the same period.
Provenance
Where these numbers come from
Planned battery storage capacity additions
Additional utility-scale battery storage capacity operators plan to bring online in a future period.
2 observations charted in United States · source organisations: EIA
Carbon intensity of electricity generation
Emissions intensity of electricity generation, measured as greenhouse gas emissions in carbon dioxide equivalent (gCO2e) per kilowatt-hour of electricity generated.
26 observations charted in United States · source organisations: Ember
Data published under CC BY 4.0. Series A as JSON · Series B as JSON
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