1、Charging Up:The State of Utility-Scale Electricity Storage in the United StatesACharging Up:The State of Utility-Scale Electricity Storage in the United States Molly Robertson,Omid Mirzapour,and Karen PalmerReport 25-09 April 2025Resources for the FutureiAbout the Authors Molly Robertson is an assoc

2、iate fellow at Resources for the Future(RFF)working on topics related to the electric power sector,including grid decarbonization,electrification,and electricity market design.She has also contributed to RFFs growing work on equitable community transition and environmental justice.She holds a master

3、s in public policy from the University of Michigans Ford School.Omid Mirzapour is a PhD candidate at Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Utah.His research focuses on the efficient deployment of flexible transmission technologies.In 2024 as an intern at RFF,he focused o

4、n grid scale energy storage uses and deployment.Karen Palmer is a senior fellow at RFF and an expert on the economics of environmental,climate and public utility regulation of the electric power sector.Her work seeks to improve the design of environmental and technology regulations in the sector and

5、 the development of new institutions to help guide the ongoing transition of the electricity sector.To these ends,she explores climate policy design,analyzes efficient ways to promote use of renewable and other clean sources of electricity,and investigates new market designs,new approaches to electr

6、icity pricing and regulatory reforms to pave the way for long-term decarbonization of electricity supply and electrification of the energy economy.Acknowledgements This report was made possible by those who generously support RFF.We would like to thank Benjamin Hobbs,James Bushnell,Jesse Buchsbaum,a