Energy storage market to double six times by 2030

11/27/2017 | Print view

Global cumulative energy storage deployments until 2030. - © Bloomberg New Energy Finance — © Bloomberg New Energy Finance

Global cumulative energy storage deployments until 2030.

According to a new report of Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) the global energy storage market will raise to 125 GW by 2030. Over $100 billions will be invested in this period.

The global energy storage market will double six times between 2016 and 2030, rising to a total of 125 gigawatts/305 gigawatt-hours according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) $103 billion will be invested over this period. Spread roughly equally across the Americas, Asia Pacific and Europe, Middle East and Africa regions.

Utility-scale and behind-the-meter applications booming

This is a similar trajectory to the remarkable expansion that the solar industry went through from 2000 to 2015, in which the share of photovoltaics as a percentage of total generation doubled seven times. Eight countries will lead the market, with 70 percent of capacity to be installed in the U.S., China, Japan, India, Germany, U.K., Australia and South Korea. Energy storage, both utility-scale and behind-the-meter, will be a crucial source of flexibility throughout this period and will be essential to integrating increasing levels of renewable energy.

BNEF energy storage analyst Yayoi Sekine, lead author of the report, said: ‘The industry has just begun. With so much investment going into battery technology, falling costs and with significant addition of wind and solar capacity in all markets, energy storage will play a crucial part in the energy transformation’. (HCN)