Battery storage capacity added
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United States · January–June 2026
Battery storage capacity added in the United States was 8.3 gigawatts in January–June 2026 (EIA).
- Publisher
- EIA
- Authority tier
- T1 Official
- Retrieved
- 15 Sep 2026
- Status
- Verified
What the source says
During the first six months of 2026, operators added another 8.3 GW of battery storage capacity, reaching nearly 52 GW of nameplate battery storage capacity, based on our latest Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory.
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APA
U.S. Energy Information Administration. (2026). 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_E03VVZ5G64RTCVBD9JPSMAKVCJ
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- MLA
- U.S. Energy Information Administration. "Battery storage capacity averaged 70% growth over the last three years." 2026, https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=67925. Accessed 15 Sept. 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_E03VVZ5G64RTCVBD9JPSMAKVCJ.
- Chicago
- U.S. Energy Information Administration. "Battery storage capacity averaged 70% growth over the last three years." 2026. https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=67925. Accessed September 15, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_E03VVZ5G64RTCVBD9JPSMAKVCJ.
- BibTeX
- @misc{eia2026batterymakvcj, author = {{U.S. Energy Information Administration}}, title = {Battery storage capacity averaged 70\% growth over the last three years}, year = {2026}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_E03VVZ5G64RTCVBD9JPSMAKVCJ}, 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
- Status
- Verified
- Review protocol
- editorial:judge-fix-v1:2026-09-27
- Checked on
- 27 September 2026
- Last revision
- 27 September 2026
- Permanent URL
- /stat/stat_E03VVZ5G64RTCVBD9JPSMAKVCJ