Students and industry push Massachusetts to study grid battery storage and expand distributed storage programs

Jul 29, 2025

High school students and industry witnesses urged the Joint Committee to back S.2325, a Clean Energy Center-led study of battery storage, and to authorize programs that would better deploy distribution-connected batteries to reduce outages and lower peak-driven costs.

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High-school students, developers and grid analysts told the Joint Committee on Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy that Massachusetts should accelerate planning and programs for battery energy storage to strengthen reliability and lower costs.

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