Utility-scale battery storage capacity
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1.5gigawatts
United States · 2020
Utility-scale battery storage capacity in United States reached 1.5 gigawatts in 2020 (EIA).
- Publisher
- EIA
- Authority tier
- T1 Official
- Locator
- Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory, October 2022
- Retrieved
- 15 Sep 2026
- Status
- Verified
What the source says
In comparison, we expect battery storage to increase from 1.5 GW in 2020 to 30.0 GW in 2025.
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- U.S. Energy Information Administration. (2020). U.S. battery storage capacity will increase significantly by 2025. Retrieved September 15, 2026, from https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=54939. Via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_5HJ25HF5KBKX48001NSQZWFTA8
- MLA
- U.S. Energy Information Administration. "U.S. battery storage capacity will increase significantly by 2025." 2020, https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=54939. Accessed 15 Sept. 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_5HJ25HF5KBKX48001NSQZWFTA8.
- Chicago
- U.S. Energy Information Administration. "U.S. battery storage capacity will increase significantly by 2025." 2020. https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=54939. Accessed September 15, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_5HJ25HF5KBKX48001NSQZWFTA8.
- BibTeX
- @misc{eia2020utilityzwfta8, author = {{U.S. Energy Information Administration}}, title = {U.S. battery storage capacity will increase significantly by 2025}, year = {2020}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_5HJ25HF5KBKX48001NSQZWFTA8}, note = {Original source: https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=54939. Accessed September 15, 2026.} }
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Primary Source
- Publisher
- U.S. Energy Information Administration · homepage ↗
- Authority tier
- Tier 1 · Multilateral Official
- Report
- U.S. battery storage capacity will increase significantly by 2025
- Type
- Press release
- Published
- —
- Locator
- Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory, October 2022
- Retrieved
- 15 September 2026
- Link status
- Reachable (HTTP 200)
- Report licence
- See source
Verification & Integrity
- Audit status
- Verified
- Review protocol
- Editorial review
- Checked on
- 17 September 2026
- Last revision
- 17 September 2026
- Archival URI
- /stat/stat_5HJ25HF5KBKX48001NSQZWFTA8