Published: 4 Mar 2021, 13:50
By:
Andy Colthorpe
AES Alamitos 100MW / 400MWh project in California; the first instance of four-hour duration battery storage commissioned as a direct replacement for natural gas peaking capacity. Image: AES Corporation.
The US’ installations of advanced energy storage almost entirely lithium-ion battery systems went beyond the 1GW mark in 2020, while in capacity terms the figure was close to 3.5GWh.
Research firm Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables’ quarterly US Energy Storage Monitor report which forecasts, then records and analyses energy storage deployments. The latest edition, gathers together stats for Q4 2020 while collating the full-year data for the whole of last year.
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The report, produced by Wood Mackenzie and the US Energy Storage Association (ESA), pointed to continued price declines and “erosion” of barriers to deployment as key to front-of-the-meter (FTM) storage “taking off” in the country.
FTM accounted for 80% of the total energy storage roll-out in the quarter, with the segment contributing 529MW of the total 651MW brought online, while 90MW of residential storage (14%) was added.
“2020 is the first year that advanced energy storage deployments surpassed gigawatt scale – a tremendous milestone on the path to our aspiration of 100GW by 2030,” said Jason Burwen, the ESA’s interim CEO.
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