The largest category of power plants applying to connect to the U.S. grid are now solar. Over a third of those are hybrids that include battery storage.
By pairing solar power and battery storage, hybrids can keep providing electricity after dark. Petmal via Getty Images
People are also reading… A look at the power and storage projects in the development pipeline offers a glimpse of hybrid power’s future. This high percentage of renewable power raises a question: How do we integrate renewable sources that produce large but varying amounts of power throughout the day?That’s where storage comes in. Lithium-ion battery prices have rapidly fallen as production has scaled up for the electric vehicle market in recent years. While there are concerns about future supply chain challenges, battery design is also likely to evolve.
Today, solar and hybrids dominate the development pipeline. By the end of 2021, more than 675 gigawatts of proposed solar plants had applied for grid connection approval, with over a third of them paired with storage. Another 247 gigawatts of wind farms were in line, with 19 gigawatts, or about 8% of those, as hybrids.
In markets like California, batteries are essentially obligatory for new solar developers. Since solar often accounts for the majority of power in the daytime market, building more adds little value. Currently 95% of all proposed large-scale solar capacity in the California queue comes with batteries.
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