# The battery boom is here!

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Podcast: [Talking Climate with Katharine Hayhoe](https://stenobird.com/podcast/talking-climate-with-katharine-hayhoe-7374238)
Published: 2026-06-22T17:00:00+00:00
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🔋 Good news: The world installed 112 gigawatts of new grid battery storage in 2025, a tenfold increase from just four years ago, and Australia is quietly out front: one in every 25 homes now has a residential battery. 🌊 Not-so-good news: Islands in India's Hooghly estuary have already been lost to rising seas and erosion and their residents are now climate refugees. As one journalist put it: the engineers knew, the scientists warned, and the decision was made not to act. 💰 What you can do: ...

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