California's Battery Surge Reshapes the Clean Energy Landscape

California's battery arrays have achieved a historic milestone, providing peak capacity equivalent to 12 nuclear plants while meeting 40 percent of state energy demand. This dramatic shift from natural gas to battery storage demonstrates the viability of large-scale clean energy infrastructure for grid reliability. However, Trump administration policies eliminating key renewable tax credits threaten to derail momentum toward the state's ambitious 2045 clean energy goal.