2025 china-us energy storage

Will China install 30 GW of energy storage by 2025?

In July 2021 China announced plans to install over 30 GW of energy storage by 2025 (excluding pumped-storage hydropower), a more than three-fold increase on its installed capacity as of 2022.

Will China overtake the US as the energy storage leader?

The new policy could mean that China overtakes the US as the energy storage leader in gigawatt terms by 2030, while requiring $18bn investment to meet its 2025 target. Some uncertainties remain, including project economics, detailed policies and supply chain constraints, but we expect to see more policies backed with strong action to meet the goal.

How much energy storage will China add in 2020?

China had 1.2GW/1.7GWh of new non-hydro energy storage additions in 2020, reaching 2.7GW/4GWh of total deployments by the end of last year. We expect China to add 430GW of new solar and wind capacity in the next five years, which could eventually spur 74GW of new storage capacity if up to 20% of the renewables-storage pairing ratio is applied.

What is China's energy storage capacity?

China has total energy storage capacity of about 35 GW as of 2020, of which only 3.3 GW was new energy storage, according to the China Energy Storage Alliance.

Will energy storage be commercialized by 2030?

The two agencies also plan to complete the commercialization of new-type energy storage systems --meaning all technologies except pumped hydro -- by 2030. Last July, they had announced a target to install 30 gigawatts of new-type energy storage capacity by 2025.

Will China cut the cost of electrochemical energy storage systems?

The country aims to cut the cost of electrochemical energy storage systems by 30% by 2025, according to a five-year plan released by the National Development and Reform Commission and the National Energy Administration.