Wood Mackenzie said this week that its forecast for battery storage will reach 4.5 GW by 2024, when the US alone should be a $4.8 billion market. It also said it was monitoring quarter by quarter and that in Q1 2019 there was 148.8 MW of new grid storage, a rise of 232% over this time last year and a record. The results come from its Energy Storage Monitor which tracks storage capacity in the US. In 2019 the overall value of the US battery storage market will reach almost $1 billion. Coverage in GreenTechMedia, a publication owned by Wood Mack, added some details, talking about New Jersey building out built 50% of the quarter’s storage, and that commercial and…