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 Robert Walton • June 10, 2025

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 Ethan Howland • June 10, 2025

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Energy Storage

The proliferation of energy storage in everything from utility-scale batteries to electric vehicles is a driving force in the transition to a cleaner, more distributed power system. This trendline includes the best Utility Dive reporting on this dynamic sector.

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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 Ethan Howland • June 9, 2025

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

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

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 Diana DiGangi • June 2, 2025

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

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

California could nearly double generation capacity using surplus interconnection: UC Berkeley report

The authors say about 16 GW of thermal capacity — dominated by gas — is operating below a 15% capacity factor, making it ripe for adding solar, wind or storage.

By Meris Lutz • May 29, 2025

Vistra solar, battery projects in MISO face supply chain delays

Vistra asked the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for two-year commercial operation deadline extensions for projects in Illinois totaling 833 MW.

By Ethan Howland • May 28, 2025

ABB launches BESS-as-a-service business model

ABB said BESS-as-a-service is “technology agnostic” and will support companies focusing on operational expenditures instead of capital expenditures.

By Diana DiGangi • May 27, 2025

The Vistra fires and the truth about lithium-ion batteries

A technology exists to mass-produce safer lithium-ion batteries that can prevent disastrous battery fires, at potentially lower cost.

By Karl Littau • May 27, 2025

House GOP budget ‘worse than feared’ for clean energy: analysts

The bill’s “unworkable” provisions raise barriers for projects to qualify for clean energy credits before an accelerated 2028 expiration, an industry association said. Jefferies analysts also called out its “intentional targeting” of residential solar.

By Brian Martucci • May 22, 2025

SEIA estimates budget bill could wipe out almost 300K clean energy jobs

Legislation that passed the House Budget Committee could jeopardize 287 U.S. solar and storage factories, says the Solar Energy Industries Association.

By Diana DiGangi • May 20, 2025

GOP supporters of IRA clean energy credits outline reconciliation bill recommendations

Fourteen Republicans asked to maintain the tax credit transferability mechanism through the phase-out period and make two other adjustments to the clean energy tax credit changes.

By Lamar Johnson • May 20, 2025

America’s climate brain drain is real — and it’s just getting started

While Washington debates the existence of climate change, countries like Germany, South Korea and the Netherlands are vigorously funding battery innovation, green hydrogen and next-gen energy storage.

By Joe Curtatone • May 20, 2025

‘Rogue’ communication devices found on Chinese-made solar power inverters

The devices could give adversaries a way to disable power grids, damage energy infrastructure and trigger blackouts, specialists say. 

By Robert Freedman • May 15, 2025

Resetting net zero: What next?

Governments, businesses and investors should seek to maintain long-term investment in competitive technologies while taking a proactive approach to sectors most vulnerable to the current slowdown.

By Adrian Del Maestro • May 15, 2025

Electricity consumption is rising, driving solar, storage expansion: EIA

Battery storage capacity additions through 2026 are expected to outpace wind, small-scale solar and natural gas, according to the Energy Information Administration.

By Diana DiGangi • May 13, 2025

House GOP proposes early phaseout of IRA clean energy tax credits

The House Ways and Means Committee’s draft budget scales back the technology-neutral clean energy investment and production tax credits while leaving carbon capture credits largely intact.

By Brian Martucci • May 13, 2025

Trump DOE’s latest move would roll some energy standards back decades

Legal challenges are likely to the U.S. Department of Energy’s efforts to repeal or alter 47 energy efficiency, climate reporting and other regulations, experts said.

By Meris Lutz • May 13, 2025

America’s moment to secure its critical mineral future

As Congress works through reconciliation, we have a historic opportunity to reassert American industrial strength, safeguard national security and power a cleaner, technologically competitive future.

By Heather Reams • May 12, 2025

Beyond shut-offs: How energy storage strengthens utilities’ wildfire resilience

Battery storage gives utilities flexible wildfire options beyond all-or-nothing shut-offs.

By Nate Walkingshaw, CEO and co-founder of Torus • May 12, 2025

XL Batteries CEO sees opportunity to topple China’s lithium battery dominance

XL Batteries CEO Tom Sisto hopes that organic flow batteries can offer a utility-scale alternative to lithium-ion, for which China has “90% control over the entirety of the supply chain.”

By Diana DiGangi • May 8, 2025

Texas renewables restrictions could increase power prices by 14% in 2035: Aurora

Reliability would also suffer — and load-shedding events become more likely — in a renewables-restricted future amid a years-long gas turbine backlog, Aurora said.

By Brian Martucci • May 6, 2025