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Battery storage in the US has grown ten-fold in just five years, and its growth is only accelerating. Just a single utility procurement announced in May of this year was for four times as much utility battery capacity as existed in the entire US five years ago.<\/p>\n

But battery storage isn\u2019t just getting bigger. It\u2019s also stretching well beyond utility-scale frequency control into new applications and market segments. In fact, fully one-third of the installed battery capacity in the US now is actually on the customer side of the meter, where it is being used to do things like mitigate demand charges and provide resilience\u2014for example, allowing a microgrid to keep functioning when grid power is shut off in a wildfire event.<\/p>\n

And then there are all the other kinds of non-battery storage, which are finding new momentum as well. It\u2019s an exciting time of rapid evolution in the storage sector. To help us understand it all, Jason Burwen, the Vice President of Policy at the Energy Storage Association who last joined us back in Episode #8<\/a>, returns to the show for this very wonky but highly informative look at the changing market, policy environment, and technologies of storage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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