2016-2019 US renewable energy + energy storage project doubled

    According to data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), from 2016 to 2019, the number of sites combining renewable home solar kit power system energy and energy storage in the United States has more than doubled, and will continue to continue to grow.

    According to the latest version of the research results, 19 solar or wind energy bases were equipped with battery energy storage in 2016, and the number of bases will grow to 53 by 2019. EIA believes that by the end of 2023, 56 such projects will be added.

    However, there is still much room for growth: the total solar capacity equipped with battery energy storage accounts for only 2%. Wind energy is only 1%, and about 25% of battery energy storage capacity is installed as part of a hybrid, co-located project. According to data provided in 2018, the top three applications for utility-scale batteries in renewable energy plants are storing excess wind and solar energy, providing frequency regulation, and then peak-shaving.

    The US Energy Information Administration found that the combination of renewable energy and energy storage projects is geographically concentrated in only a few states. Surprisingly, Texas ranks first among the top 10 renewable and renewable energy program capacity, Nevada second, and California third. Although EIA gave a list of the top ten, it found that 90% of the total operating capacity of such projects is concentrated in 9 states in the United States, and only 10 facilities account for more than half of the total operating capacity.

    The US Energy Information Administration found that the scale of renewable energy power generation projects and battery energy storage projects is gradually expanding. By the end of 2023, the average renewable energy capacity of proposed facilities in the United States will increase from 34 MW to 75 MW, and the average energy storage capacity of batteries will increase from 5 MW to 36 MW.

    In April of this year, according to industry media reports, a study by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) found that the United States already has 4.6 million kilowatts of online utility-scale mixed resource capacity and 14.7 million kilowatts Capacity is under development. In the interconnected queues of regional transmission organizations (RTOs) and independent system operators (ISOs), there are a large number of 69GW hybrid power generation and energy storage projects.