Energy storage deployment surge 591% in the US to support renewable energy growth and stabilize the grid

Most energy industry watchers saw the growth of energy storage to be inevitable in order to support renewable energy growth and to stabilize the grid, but deployment had been slow until now. Several new projects coming online during the first quarter 2017 made it the first significant deployment of energy storage in the US to date: 234 megawatt-hours of energy storage. That’s based on GTM Research’s first quarter report.

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