Trump Flips from Opposing Battery Storage to Encouraging its Use
Battery storage has gone from an afterthought to a selling point inside the Trump administration, even as the same White House has spent the past year fighting other parts of the clean energy buildout. The nonprofit energy research group RMI, once known as the Rocky Mountain Institute, found that the country's battery storage fleet has multiplied more than forty times over since 2018. Utility-scale installations climbed to 43.6 gigawatts by the close of last year, a stretch during which the sector expanded by roughly seventy percent annually for three straight years running. Counting every category of storage, the U.S. now…
