Planned utility-scale battery storage capacity additions
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26GW
United States · 2027
EIA projects planned utility-scale battery storage capacity additions in United States at 26 GW in 2027.
- Publisher
- EIA
- Authority tier
- T1 Official
- Locator
- Battery storage capacity averaged 70% growth over the last three years
- Retrieved
- 15 Sep 2026
- Status
- Verified
What the source says
Operators currently plan to add 26 GW in 2027 and 14 GW in 2028.
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- U.S. Energy Information Administration. (2027). Battery storage capacity averaged 70% growth over the last three years. Retrieved September 15, 2026, from https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=67925. Via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XC3BMVT0FP162MBJPTR
- MLA
- U.S. Energy Information Administration. "Battery storage capacity averaged 70% growth over the last three years." 2027, https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=67925. Accessed 15 Sept. 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XC3BMVT0FP162MBJPTR.
- Chicago
- U.S. Energy Information Administration. "Battery storage capacity averaged 70% growth over the last three years." 2027. https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=67925. Accessed September 15, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XC3BMVT0FP162MBJPTR.
- BibTeX
- @misc{eia2027plannedmbjptr, author = {{U.S. Energy Information Administration}}, title = {Battery storage capacity averaged 70\% growth over the last three years}, year = {2027}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XC3BMVT0FP162MBJPTR}, note = {Original source: https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=67925. Accessed September 15, 2026.} }
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Primary Source
- Publisher
- U.S. Energy Information Administration · homepage ↗
- Authority tier
- Tier 1 · Multilateral Official
- Report
- Battery storage capacity averaged 70% growth over the last three years
- Type
- Press release
- Published
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- Locator
- Battery storage capacity averaged 70% growth over the last three years
- Retrieved
- 15 September 2026
- Link status
- Reachable (HTTP 200)
- Report licence
- See source
Verification & Integrity
- Audit status
- Verified
- Review protocol
- Editorial review
- Checked on
- 15 September 2026
- Last revision
- 15 September 2026
- Archival URI
- /stat/stat_01M2KJ7XC3BMVT0FP162MBJPTR