US planned generation capacity, battery storage
ObservedNameplate capacity of battery storage generators in EIA's planned inventory (all planning stages, from proposed to construction complete), as of each data month.
Ingestedfrom U.S. Energy Information AdministrationfreshJSON export
Current value, United States
65,262MW
period 2026-07-01- Geography
- United States (USA)
- Observation date
- 2026-07-01
- Unit
- MW
- Frequency
- monthly
- Ingested
- 2026-09-07 22:01 UTC
1-year change+3,023.7contextual+4.86%2026-06-01 to 2026-07-01from 62,238.3 to 65,262 MW
10-year trend-0.21% per yearcontextual-2.06%2025-09-01 to 2026-07-01compound annual growth rate; total -1,374 MW, from 66,636 to 65,262 MW
Historical series
US planned generation capacity, battery storage, United States
Observed
Data table (13 rows)
| Period | Value (MW) | Source revision | Ingested at |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-01 | 65,262 | 2026-07 | 2026-09-07 22:01 UTC |
| 2026-06-01 | 62,238.3 | 2026-06 | 2026-09-07 22:01 UTC |
| 2026-05-01 | 62,630.1 | 2026-05 | 2026-09-07 22:01 UTC |
| 2026-04-01 | 63,284 | 2026-04 | 2026-09-07 22:01 UTC |
| 2026-03-01 | 65,106.4 | 2026-03 | 2026-09-07 22:01 UTC |
| 2026-02-01 | 61,290.5 | 2026-02 | 2026-09-07 22:01 UTC |
| 2026-01-01 | 65,005.2 | 2026-01 | 2026-09-07 22:01 UTC |
| 2025-12-01 | 65,856.4 | 2025-12 | 2026-09-07 22:01 UTC |
| 2025-11-01 | 66,990 | 2025-11 | 2026-09-07 22:01 UTC |
| 2025-10-01 | 66,655.2 | 2025-10 | 2026-09-07 22:01 UTC |
| 2025-09-01 | 66,636 | 2025-09 | 2026-09-07 22:01 UTC |
| 2025-08-01 | 65,362.9 | 2025-08 | 2026-09-07 22:01 UTC |
| 2025-07-01 | 66,207.9 | 2025-07 | 2026-09-07 22:01 UTC |
Definition
What this measures
Sum of the Nameplate Capacity (MW) column over the rows of the Planned sheet of the EIA-860M monthly workbook whose Technology is Batteries. The Planned sheet lists generators of 1 MW and above that developers have reported to EIA with a planned operation date and a status code: (P) planned, approvals not initiated; (L) approvals pending; (T) approvals received; (U) under construction, at most half complete; (V) under construction, more than half complete; (TS) construction complete, not yet in commercial operation; (OT) other. The value is the whole pipeline regardless of status; the status split is on the /capacity page and in capacity_projects.
- Direction
- contextual, not scored
- Geography level
- country
- Slug
- us-planned-generation-capacity-battery-storage
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Provenance and methodologysource, series, ingestion, revisions
- Classification
- Observedpublished by the cited source, ingested without transformation
- Source organization
- U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-860M, Monthly Update to the Annual Electric Generator Report
- Series ID
planned:battery_storagelast fetch: ok- Source links
- Source homepage: https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia860m/
- License and attribution
- Approved with attributionU.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-860M
- Last source update
- 2026-07-01(source revision label as published by the provider)
- Last ingestion
- last successful runfresh
- Last run
- success2026-09-07 22:15 UTC
- Parser version
- eia-860m-projects/1.0.0
- Methodology version
- 1.0
- Quality and confidence
- EIA excludes facilities with total nameplate capacity under 1 MW, so distributed solar is understated. Nameplate capacity, not net summer capacity. Puerto Rico is reported in separate sheets and is not included. Each monthly file restates the full planned inventory, so the series is one point per data month, labelled with that month as source_revision; earlier months come from EIA's archive when EIA_860M_HISTORY_MONTHS (default 13) is above 1.Ingestion rejects values outside 0 to 2,000,000 MW.13 periods with values for this geography, 2025-07-01 to 2026-07-01.
- Revisions
- Values reported for the latest period (2026-07-01) by each source revision ingested. Earlier rows are never deleted; the newest ingested row is shown as current.
Source revision Value (MW) Ingested at Status 2026-07 65,262 2026-09-07 22:01 UTC current No superseded rows for this geography: every period has been ingested once.