By:
Andy Colthorpe
There are perhaps four or five US states which have become prolific in their deployment of battery energy storage systems. The growth of large-scale battery systems in places like California, Hawaii, Texas, Arizona and New York might naturally form the bulk of our US project news coverage here at
Energy-Storage.news, but it’s also interesting to hear about what’s happening in regions where that development is still at an earlier stage.
One example is the steady proliferation of batteries paired with renewable generation in states that have long relied on coal. As that era of coal dominance looks set to end, driven as much by economics as any environmental policies, in the last year or so we’ve heard about huge hybrid resources projects of that type in Oklahoma, Wisconsin and Indiana along with smaller projects in Kansas and Ohio.