Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription, on Patreon, or on Stripe. Help us produce all of the high-quality, original content we publish week after week despite the challenges of content-scraping AI, antisocial media, inflation, and other hurdles. U.S. battery energy storage capacity nearly doubles in the first 18 months ... [continued]

The outlook for storage construction keeps getting brighter as everyone from the Trump White House to clean energy advocates to AI giants clamors for more.

US battery storage industry broke deployment records in Q2 2026 in gigawatt-hour terms, underpinned by growth in the utility-scale segment.