US’ record-high quarterly energy storage deployments a ‘sign of things to come’

The US energy storage industry collectively deployed 476MW / 764MWh in a single three-month period between July to September, with analysis firm Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables describing the record-breaking performance as a “sign of things to come”.

These are more than double the highest quarterly figures to date, according to statistics gathered by Wood Mackenzie in the latest edition of its quarterly US Energy Storage Monitor report, for Q3 2020. In the previous edition, the analysis firm’s head of energy storage Dan Finn-Foley had described the market to have proven “remarkably resilient to impacts from coronavirus lockdowns”.