Luna, a California battery storage project that went online during Q3. Image: Leonardo Moreno via LinkedIn.
The US industry deployed more than 5GWh of energy storage in the third quarter of 2022, the highest Q3 figure on record and close to half the entire amount of storage installed in the country in 2021.
That’s according to the latest edition of analysis and research group Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables’ US Energy Storage Monitor, which recorded that 1,444MW/5,189MWh of storage was deployed in Q3 2022.
Of that, a big majority was once again in the grid-scale market segment, 1,257MW/4,733MWh of the total. That was the highest grid-scale deployment figure Wood Mackenzie has observed, smashing out Q1 2021’s record 4,598MWh of grid-scale installations.
Of those grid-scale projects, the leaders California and Texas – or perhaps more accurately the…