The U.S. energy storage sector remains optimistic after a turbulent year marked by increased regulatory and tariff-related risks, according to findings from law firm Troutman Pepper Locke.
Its latest industry report, Brave New World: What’s Next for U.S. Energy Storage After OBBBA and Amid Continued Tariff Risk?, highlights how developers, investors and lenders across the battery energy storage system (BESS) landscape have prepared to face escalating risk profiles in 2025 and why they remain confident about the sector’s overall growth trajectory.
Across the shifting U.S. energy landscape, the strategic value of storage is widely recognized. It is seen as much as a service for grid resilience and power price stability as it is for decarbonization. Andrew Waranch, CEO of Spearmint Energy, points to this as a source of industry confidence.
“So much of the power market and power price is set by expensive and old generators that only need to operate du
