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US renewables top 30% of electricity, and solar could pass natural gas by spring 2027
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US renewables reached 30% of electricity generation in the first five months of 2026, with utility-scale solar up 21% year-on-year and battery storage adding 16.5 gigawatts. Solar is projected to surpass natural gas in installed capacity by spring 2027.
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Battery storage is now the missing piece that makes solar reliable enough to replace gas peaker plants. If you sell grid-stabilisation tech, storage hardware, or software that manages evening demand spikes, the customer acquisition cost just dropped—utilities are buying storage at scale to avoid building new gas plants.
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