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America's Electricity Gap

Joseph Politano · 3 May 2026

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  1. Solar and batteries are growing at a record pace throughout nearly the entire globe, increasingly winning on cost and accessibility in the US and in places as politically and economically disparate as Pakistan or Germany.
  2. This variability makes short and long-duration batteries an obvious and necessary complement to solar panels.
  3. It is not a coincidence that some of America's fastest-growing state economies, like Texas, are also among the fastest deployers of solar and batteries. They aren't doing it primarily for climate or ideological reasons, but because it's the easiest way to close their electricity gap and power economic growth.

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