The US state of Texas is on course to overtake California in battery storage. US battery installations hit a record 57.6 gigawatt-hours last year, up 30% on 2024. Despite US President Donald Trump’s attacks on renewable energy, Republican-led states led the way, building two-thirds of utility-led storage. A homegrown manufacturing industry is also booming as EV batterymakers pivot to grid storage. Falling costs and growing reliability have made batteries not just “a partisan climate solution,” Electrek argued, but a “tool that utilities simply can’t ignore.” Trump’s attacks on solar power also appear to be easing as some of his prominent allies tout the clean energy source amid voter concerns over rising electricity costs and AI data center buildout.
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The US state of Texas is on course to overtake California in battery storage. US battery installations hit a record 57.6 gigawatt-hours last year, up 30% on 2024. Despite US President Donald Trump’s attacks on renewable energy, Republican-led states led the way, building two-thirds of utility-led storage. A homegrown manufacturing industry is also booming as EV batterymakers pivot to grid storage. Falling costs and growing reliability have made batteries not just “a partisan climate solution,” Electrek argued, but a “tool that utilities simply can’t ignore.” Trump’s attacks on solar power also appear to be easing as some of his prominent allies tout the clean energy source amid voter concerns over rising electricity costs and AI data center buildout.
What less regulations and no CEQA get ya