US Home Battery Installations Surge 86% Year-Over-Year to Record Levels

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US home battery installations scaling to historic turning point - and nothing Washington, DC does is stopping them >US deployed a record 3.3GW / 8.4GWh of total energy storage in Q1 2026 alone, with solar and storage capturing 91% of all new capacity additions >Residential storage up 86% y-on-y, pushing solar +batteries to nearly 50% of all new home installations >Targeted state incentives and Virtual Power Plant networks stepping up to aggregate these assets, turning private garages into a collective Electro-Shield

Wires are chewing fossil pipelines from the garage up

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-01/us-home-battery-installations-boosted-by-state-incentives

11:55 PM · Jul 1, 2026 · 3.1K Views

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Ramez Naam@ramez

Batteries are the new solar. Still going through the rapid growth and cost reductions of the solar industry 10-15 years ago.

John Raymond Hanger @johnrhanger

Good morning with good news: US battery additions surged 54% to record high in Q1 2026, compared to Q1 2025!

Utility-scale rose 32%; residential 86%; CCI 193%.

Battery capacity will rise ~275% by 2031, reaching 200 GW/655 GWh of cumulative capacity! https://go.woodmac.com/l/131501/2026-06-18/361394i/131501/1782187797Yr73eiaP/US_Energy_Storage_Monitor_Q2_2026.pdf

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EcoChampion of Heqet@ecochampionhk

@AssaadRazzouk People are waking up ...... solar without batteries was always half a plan.

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PPASquare@PPASquare_

@AssaadRazzouk Home batteries, solar and VPPs are making the energy transition more distributed and harder to reverse.

The key challenge now: smarter tariffs, grid integration and fair compensation.

The garage may become a key part of the grid.

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M Barnes Policy@mb_policy

@AssaadRazzouk The 'other states' growth is the signal. California was always policy-aligned. When regulatory coherence spreads beyond the first mover, deployment velocity compounds rapidly.

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Troy Deibert@OsniHolmesMedia

@AssaadRazzouk One could install batteries first to capture peak solar generation at low rates, if there is surplus on the grid.

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