What's a "GW of battery storage capacity"? Do they mean gigawatt-hour? (sidenote: how scary that the DoE is the one making this error?)
reply> What's a "GW of battery storage capacity"?
replyThis is the maximum amount of power it can dispatch. I think they use it intentionally so they can compare it to other generation sources.
For example this spreadsheet [1], with data for 2023, contains figures for "power capacity megawatts" and "energy capacity megawatthours".
1. https://www.eia.gov/analysis/studies/electricity/batterystor...
This source has some useful stats on duration: https://seia.org/research-resources/energy-storage-market-ou...
reply> In Q2 2026, battery energy stationary storage (BESS) installations reached 20.2 GWh
> total module manufacturing capacity to over 100 GWh.
> Storage Deployed in 2025: 57.6 GWh
How much faster would it go if the feds were helping things along instead of actively hindering?
replyThe government likes to get in front of a parade and pretend they are leading it.
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