Solar Power Message Board - Msg: 35187721 Green EnergyElectrek Green Energy BriefEGEBSolar powerBattery StorageArizona brings a huge grid battery online ahead of peak demand [graphic] Michelle Lewis | Jul 7 2025 - 10:27 am PT 2 Comments [graphic] Photo: e-storage One of Arizona’s biggest grid battery storage
Big batteries that send clean energy to the grid soar in 2024 . . . The amount of solar energy in the U S is growing and surpassed the 100-gigawatt mark this year Another way that the addition of these batteries is helpful to the American electrical grid and grids around the world is that forecasting is getting more difficult
Load growth: The impending grid apocalypse thats giving your . . . Recent estimates forecast a 15 8% increase in summer peak electricity demand by 2029 (relative to 2024) Translation: we need about 118 GWh of additional generation capacity, along with enough new transmission and distribution capacity to deliver it…and we need it fast The reasons are easy to understand; the solutions, less so