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U.S. Battery Storage: Operating vs. Planned
Utility-scale battery capacity operating, and capacity developers plan to bring online over the next 12 months, nameplate gigawatts
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Planned, next 12 months · Continuation · the recent trend, flattening · 30 days
Continuation isn't available for Operating: Last observation was 114 days ago — too stale to project.
Dashed: the projection from the latest reading. Shaded: the range about two in three outcomes land in. A projection, not a promise.
EIA-860M. Planned capacity is the developers’ own schedule as reported to EIA each month; projects often slip or are cancelled.
The batteries already running on the U.S. grid against the pipeline due in the next year. When the planned line runs high relative to what is operating, a fast year of additions is queued up, if the projects arrive on time.
What this chart reads
- U.S. Utility-Scale Battery Storage Capacityas “Operating”behindlatest 2026-07-01
- U.S. Battery Storage Planned Additions, Next 12 Monthsas “Planned, next 12 months”behindlatest 2026-08-01
Sources
U.S. Utility-Scale Battery Storage Capacity. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory, via the EIA Open Data API (electricity/operating-generator-capacity). EIA data are in the public domain.
U.S. Battery Storage Planned Additions, Next 12 Months. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory, Planned sheet (eia.gov/electricity/data/eia860m). EIA data are in the public domain.
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