Energy Storage

  • Rendering of Ameren Missouri's planned Big Hollow gas plant and colocated battery facility.
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    Ameren plans Missouri gas plant with 400-MW battery storage

    The Big Hollow Energy Center will be Ameren’s first large-scale battery facility, but the utility’s long-range plans call for installing 1.8 GW of energy storage by 2042.

    By • July 8, 2025
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    Opinion

    How retail energy suppliers can navigate the new federal energy policies

    Key strategies include buying renewable energy certificates now, leveraging data and predictive analytics and growing market share.

    By Nainish Gupta • July 8, 2025
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    Trendline

    Top 5 Stories from Utility Dive

    Power demand is rising amid dramatic shifts in federal energy policy, but technology and markets continue to push the grid toward cleaner, more distributed resources. 

    By Utility Dive staff
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    Base Power, GVEC partner on 2-MW Texas VPP

    Batteries will provide residential customers with power if there is a blackout while allowing GVEC to offer ancillary services and manage transmission costs.

    By • July 2, 2025
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    Opinion

    Whatever happens with the IRA, energy storage is here to stay

    The electric grid needs flexibility, speed and stability. Energy storage offers all three.

    By Arun Muthukrishnan • July 1, 2025
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    New Jersey seeks 1 GW of transmission-scale storage

    The Garden State’s solicitation is part of a plan to have 2 GW of storage by 2030.

    By Brian Martucci • July 1, 2025
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    Federal agencies, including FERC and DOE, revoke environmental review rules

    The agencies eliminated all references to consider climate change, environmental justice and other key environmental issues in their permit reviews, Earthjustice said.

    By • July 1, 2025
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    Utilities, energy developers back Senate’s more lenient tax credit timeline

    A powerful coalition of trade associations and energy groups thanked senators for rolling back some of the House version’s deepest cuts, but the two chambers will need to agree on a final bill.

    By Brian Martucci • June 25, 2025
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    Texas law gives grid operator power to disconnect data centers during crisis

    The new law pairs mandatory curtailment with a voluntary demand response procurement program.

    By Brian Martucci • June 25, 2025
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    Prevalon brings 80-MW battery storage online for Idaho Power

    Idaho Power could add an additional 705 MW of storage in the next four years, per its draft integrated resource plan. 

    By • June 25, 2025
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    Pentagon-backed battery innovation facility opens at UT Dallas

    “We want to have that supply chain resilience and independence from the Chinese supply chain,” said Kyeongjae Cho, the facility’s director.

    By • June 24, 2025
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    Data centers could bring alternative battery types into the mainstream, developers say

    Artificial intelligence data centers have unique energy needs, and industry insiders say that’s driving a renewed interest in energy storage technologies that have not caught on with utilities.

    By Emma Penrod • Updated June 27, 2025
  • An aerial view of the Shotwick Solar Energy Park on February 25, 2025 in Deeside, Wales.
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    Senate Finance Committee reduces House IRA cuts, but few changes for wind and solar

    Wind and solar projects must begin construction by the end of 2025 to qualify for the Inflation Reduction Act’s full 45Y and 48E tax credits in the Finance Committee's proposed budget bill.

    By • June 18, 2025
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    ‘Shoulder season’ reliability a growing concern in ERCOT, other ISOs: Aurora Energy Research

    Batteries, gas peaker plants and data centers will provide critical system flexibility by 2030 as load growth, aging infrastructure and weather volatility increase planning uncertainty, Aurora said.

    By Brian Martucci • June 17, 2025
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    Opinion

    Senate: Don’t fumble the energy future

    Ending clean energy tax deductions would limit power supply and raise electricity prices. It would be like sending a great football team to compete in the Super Bowl without cleats.

    By Dean Granoff • June 17, 2025
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    Microgrids keep the lights on for wildfire-prone California facilities

    But federal tax changes under consideration in Congress could make microgrids more expensive for schools and localities that provide services during emergencies.

    By Brian Martucci • June 16, 2025
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    Batteries are making the grid more reliable: NERC

    Last year in Texas, there were times when batteries provided all of the capacity for frequency regulation services, according to the watchdog’s 2025 State of Reliability report.

    By • June 13, 2025
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    Opinion

    Supercharging America’s power grid from the demand side

    Microgrids with continuous AI-powered monitoring can significantly reduce the need for costly grid upgrades and lower the risk of power failures.

    By James Richmond • June 11, 2025
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    US utility-scale energy storage to double, reach 65 GW by 2027: EIA

    The U.S. Energy Information Administration published its Short Term Energy Outlook on Tuesday, forecasting rapid growth in battery storage and a decline in gas-fired generation.

    By • June 10, 2025
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    MISO submits revised fast-track interconnection process for FERC approval

    NextEra, Sierra Club and other groups say, however, that the Midcontinent Independent System Operator failed to work with stakeholders on the proposal as the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission directed.

    By • June 10, 2025
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    MISO resource outlook improves; surplus expected next summer

    The potential surplus for the Midcontinent Independent System Operator ranges from 1.4 GW to 6.4 GW next summer, but uncertainty clouds the longer-term outlook, according to the OMS-MISO survey.

    By • June 9, 2025
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    Tariffs to spike power generation costs: reports

    Battery energy storage systems are especially vulnerable to tariffs, according to Wood Mackenzie and Anza Renewables. Data from the two firms showed a sharp increase in BESS costs last quarter.

    By Brian Martucci • June 9, 2025
  • Construction of Amazon Mid-Atlantic Region data center in Loudon County, Virginia progresses on Feb. 10, 2024.
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    Opinion

    Large load tariffs have a problem. Clean transition tariffs are the solution.

    These tariffs were designed to offer large loads access to renewable energy, but they could be expanded to baseload generation to remove at-risk generation from the utility’s books.

    By Ben Hertz-Shargel • June 5, 2025
  • An aerial view of the Shotwick Solar Energy Park on February 25, 2025 in Deeside, Wales.
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    House budget bill would kill 330K solar, storage jobs: SEIA

    The Solar Energy Industries Association is lobbying the Senate to revise the House’s rollback of IRA tax credits during budget negotiations, citing estimated job losses in every state.

    By • June 2, 2025
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    Clean power deployments neared record in Q1, but development pipeline growth slowed: ACP

    Utility-scale solar and energy storage have made inroads in the Midwest and South, but political uncertainty could quash the momentum, the American Clean Power Association said.

    By Brian Martucci • May 30, 2025
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    Opinion

    IRA tax credits spur construction, manufacturing in red and blue states

    Repealing the Inflation Reduction Act could slow our ability to build more power generation and increase the risk of rolling blackouts and higher energy costs.

    By Emmanuel Martin-Lauzer • May 29, 2025