The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) is partnering with Benchmark Mineral Intelligence, an international research firm providing energy storage market analysis. Beginning in Q1, SEIA and Benchmark will release a new, quarterly market outlook report.
The “Energy Storage Market Outlook” (ESMO) will draw on Benchmark’s proprietary, grid and behind the meter data on U.S. energy storage deployment, and with SEIA’s industry expertise, will provide an analysis and forecast of the U.S. energy storage market.
“Energy storage is a critical part of how we meet skyrocketing demand in this country. In state after state, we’ve watched how solar and energy storage together have kept the lights on and kept energy prices down during natural disasters and spikes in demand,” said Darren Van’t Hof, interim president and CEO of the SEIA. “Investors recognize that energy storage is no longer an add-on to solar, but rather a central technology for America’s energy future. SEIA already offers unmatched advocacy for the energy storage sector, and this new partnership with Benchmark will arm industry leaders with the insights and analysis they need to invest in more energy storage.”
Benchmark’s research has a global footprint. The group’s staff have testified in front of the United States Senate and legislative bodies in the United Kingdom and Canada, and its insights are cited in global publications.
“The U.S. energy storage market is entering a phase where scale, policy and capital deployment are converging,” said Andrew Miller, CEO at Benchmark. “Through this partnership with SEIA we are combining robust, bottom-up data with policy and market expertise to deliver a clear, credible view of how energy storage and its supply chain is evolving in the U.S. The Energy Storage Market Outlook will give industry leader and policymakers the transparency they need to make informed decisions as storage becomes a core pillar of the U.S. power system.”
SEIA is continuing to advocate for energy storage deployment, and this partnership with Benchmark is part of that effort. In January, SEIA hosted the Energy Storage Policy Forum on Capitol Hill to bring together policy and industry stakeholders to discuss the importance of energy storage to meeting rising energy demand. SEIA also released a suite of new resources and energy storage policy priorities to grow the sector in 2026.
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