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The new investment tax credit (ITC) for standalone energy storage means some US developers are opting to overbuild instead of augment later, system integrators told Energy-Storage.news.
The standalone ITC, brought in as part of the Inflation Reduction Act and effective as of 1 January this year, has meant a significant uptick in developer interest in the US grid-scale energy storage market.
New entrants are coming into a market where existing participants are increasingly having to think about augmenting existing systems as well as deploying new ones, as Energy-Storage.news recently wrote in an interview with EPC firm Burns & McDonnell.