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William Driscoll
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Like Texas and California, here’s how battery deployment in the Eastern US might take off
A study led by two energy lawyers documents the causes of “lagging” battery energy storage deployment in the Eastern US and recommends a host of policy solutions that could help scale BESS deployment.
Feb 19, 2026
Grid-forming inverters significantly enhance grid stability, US national lab finds
The Kauaʻi Island Utility Cooperative in Hawaii, which deployed storage before grid-forming inverters became available, became a test case for diagnosing grid issues that can arise with older grid-following inverters, and how grid-forming inverters can stabilize a grid.
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Chicago to New Jersey could face cold-weather load shedding by 2032 without 16 GW of batteries
'Without decisive action, millions of homes and businesses could face costly and dangerous reliability risks,' said the trade body which sponsored a Brattle Group study into the 13-state PJM grid, adding, 'Hundreds of storage projects are stalled in PJM’s interconnection queue.'
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Flexible interconnection an option to free up Californian grid for more storage, solar
The state has given developers the option of limiting grid electricity feed-in from their projects at specified times, to ease network congestion. Now, just the hardware required to flexibly control output is needed…
US electricity body: Deploy grid-forming batteries now to avoid costly infrastructure later
Large-scale batteries with grid-forming software can sustain grid reliability as renewables replace synchronous fossil fuel generators, according to a report from the Energy Systems Integration Group (ESIG). The study focuses on test procedures to validate grid-forming capabilities.
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