U.S. Energy Storage Coalition: Advancing Energy Dominance

It's become clear that energy storage will be critical to America’s power supply, now and into the future. That’s why a broad cross-section of the American energy industry came together to form the U.S. Energy Storage Coalition, an alliance of American energy companies committed to advancing energy storage as a solution to our most pressing economic and national security challenges.

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In 2017, battery energy storage largely consisted of a few pilot projects here and there. Today, energy storage could be powering more than 20 million homes at any given time. The industry’s first ascent began with an innovative, free-market reform enacted by the Trump Administration in 2018 – and now built itself into an engine of industrial and economic expansion. By 2030, the energy storage industry will have deployed 100 gigawatts (GW) – enough to power 75 million new homes, or thousands upon thousands of new data centers, factories, hospitals, and businesses.

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Representing the majority of America’s future energy storage project pipeline and grid battery manufacturing capacity, the newly formed Coalition is committed to advancing solutions and working with policymakers to tackle the energy challenges of our time:

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1. America is at risk of an energy shortfall. Energy storage is ready to keep the lights on and help the United States win the AI race.

America is consuming more energy than ever before. As industrial and data center growth surge demand for electricity, the industry is racing to deploy more electricity to meet the need -- and there’s no room for delay.  is designed to maximize power production and keep the lights on. As batteries for America’s power grid, energy storage resources soak up excess power, stores it, and sends it back to the grid when its needed most.

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Energy storage is being deployed across the country to supercharge America’s power plants and transmission networks, playing a unique role balancing power demand and supply, easing pressure on aging infrastructure, and maximizing the performance of energy sources like natural gas, coal, and solar.

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Energy storage has already played a crucial role in preventing blackouts and generating cost savings in states like Texas and California. Don’t just take our word for it, NERC, the regulatory authority and reliability-hawk of America’s power grid, has noted “battery resource additions are helping reduce energy shortfall risks. In Texas, California, and across the U.S. West, the influx of battery energy storage systems (BESS) in recent years has markedly improved the ability to manage energy risks.” As the United States rapidly builds power hungry data centers and artificial intelligence infrastructure, energy storage is being built to provide on-site power stability and to more broadly prepare the grid for the AI era. Energy storage allows us to ensure no electron is wasted when we need every bit of capacity we can produce.

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Federal actions to drive infrastructure deployment, including Presidential Executive Orders to Unleash American Energy and Remove Barriers to American Leadership in AI, as well as the U.S. Department of Energy’s Speed to Power Initiative, are primed to accelerate energy storage deployment alongside other critical energy resources.

2. Electricity prices are going up. Energy storage has proven to stabilize power prices and save money for families and businesses.

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Energy storage has a very unique ability to lower electricity prices. That’s because energy storage is designed to complement, support, and maximize all energy infrastructure from power plants to transmission lines.  

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In Texas, energy storage resources have freed up standby natural gas facilities to provide full-time baseload power, taking on the role of balancing the grid on a day-to-day basis and responding to fast-changing and fluctuating demand. In this role, batteries boost the performance and capacity of power plants and reduce wear and tear, extending facility lifespans and reducing maintenance costs.

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Between 2023 and 2024, Texas built nearly 5 GW of energy storage resources, and the results were instantaneous. In the Summer of 2023, Texas grid operators issued more than 10 appeals for families and businesses to reduce electricity consumption. In 2024, the grid went the entire Summer without a single conservation call, even though demand for electricity was at an all-time high. The state saved more than $750 million that summer alone.

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This doesn’t have to be a Texan phenomenon. Independent analyses have shown that deploying grid-scale energy storage could generate tens-of-billions in cost savings for the American Midwest and Great Plains.  State regulators and grid operators can cut red tape and speed up the time it takes to connect new resources to the grid, reducing costs for everyone and accelerating energy abundance.

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3. The U.S. has an opportunity to revitalize its global industrial leadership. The energy storage sector can help restore American manufacturing by expanding its factory boom.

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At the heart of the Coalition’s formation was the industry’s commitment to invest $100 billion to build and buy American-made grid batteries. The energy sector is moving at breakneck pace, putting steel in the ground and people to work building new state-of-the-art factories across the nation. These grid battery factories are the steel backbone of the energy storage industry.

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These investments will create more than 350,000 good-paying jobs and ensure that by 2030, the United States can meet 100% of domestic demand for energy storage equipment with American-made batteries. In Arizona, Texas, Nevada, Michigan, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Tennessee, new factories are reaching commercial production. The energy storage industry might present one of the most promising reversals of manufacturing decline in the United States.  

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With tax laws in place, the right federal regulations could set the U.S. on a pathway to net-exporting grid batteries in a few short years. State governments can support new infrastructure investments aimed at boosting grid equipment manufacturing production

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4. American mineral production is insufficient to ensure energy security, national security, and technological innovation. The energy storage industry is creating new markets to boost critical mineral supply and technology innovation.

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Two key ingredients in American grid battery manufacturing are lithium and graphite. As a result, we’ve seen investment in mining and mineral sourcing across the United States, from mining in Nevada, lithium “brining” in Arkansas, and refineries in Texas.  

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One of the most promising developments is the use of American petroleum refinery byproducts as a grid battery feedstock in the form of synthetic graphite. Domestic grid battery manufacturing represents a new market for American oil producers and refiners – and the partnership between these two sectors represents the broader energy sector’s commitment to advancing energy storage to meet our country’s energy ambitions.

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All-the-while, investment in a fully American grid battery supply chain represents a significant accelerator for battery technologies used in essential, modern military equipment like drones. The momentum behind the energy storage industry, all tied to rapid deployment of grid-scale batteries to keep the lights on, is important for both American energy security and national security.

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The energy storage sector is ready to partner with federal agencies to eliminate permitting barriers for critical mines, exercise defense production act authorities to quickly ramp capacity, and build strategic U.S. mineral supplies for energy and military technologies.

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The One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB) recognized the importance of grid batteries, setting the path forward for an accelerated and expanded build-out of energy storage infrastructure. The Energy Storage Coalition is committed to expanding on this momentum and advancing policy that builds a stronger power grid to meet our nation’s energy needs and ambitions. This is about more than technology — it’s about securing America’s energy future.

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We are proud to announce the launch of the U.S. Energy Storage Coalition.

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