Did you know?

• According to market research firm IHS, 

  the energy storage market is set to “explode” to an annual installation size of 6 gigawatts (GW) in 2017 and over 40 GW by 2022 — from an initial base of only 0.34 GW installed in 2012 and 2013.
• The U.S. energy storage industry comprises hundreds of companies and thousands of American workers building commercial energy storage systems throughout the country.
• Flywheel and battery energy storage systems are operating today in the competitive ancillary services power market – providing a 10x faster and more accurate response to a power dispatcher’s signals compared to power turbine generators.
• Over 60 million Americans in 13 mid-Atlantic states plus the District of Columbia are saving money and receiving highest quality service thanks to energy storage systems operating in that region.
• PJM Interconnection projects that just a 10-20% reduction in its frequency regulationcapacity procurement – made possible by additional storage projects – could result in$25-50 million in savings to residential, commercial and industrial consumers.
• The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) approved a target requiring the state’s three largest investor-owned utilities, aggregators, and other energy service providers to procure 1.3 gigawatts of energy storage by 2020.
• An IMS Research report expects  the market for storing power from solar panels – which was less than $200 million in 2012 – will catapult to $19 billion by 2017.

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  Source: http://energystorage.org/energy-storage/facts-figures