A total of 4.5GW/12.8GWh of large-scale BESS capacity when into operation around the world last month, with Asia and South America showing strong figures.
That’s according to the latest monthly data from Benchmark Mineral Intelligence, reported on as part of our regular series for ESN Premium.
The figures for April are in the table further down. China continues to dominate deployments, bringing online 2.5GW/7.2GWh of large-scale battery energy storage system (BESS) capacity, a little over half of the global total.
But the rest of Asia also had a strong month, with 647MW/1,765MWh of capacity coming online. A good chunk of that was from the first phase of Adani Group’s Khavda solar-plus-storage project coming online in India, Benchmark analyst Pete Tillotson said.
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The South & Central America region also had a strong month, possibly including a 210MWh system in Chile announced at the start of May by Innergex. The country has now deployed 5GWh in the first four months of the year, and is far ahead of its long-term deployment plans.
| Region | MW | MWh |
| Africa | 0 | 0 |
| Asia (ex-China) | 647 | 1765 |
| China | 2524 | 7222 |
| Europe | 537 | 861 |
| Middle East | 0 | 0 |
| North America | 182 | 366 |
| Oceania | 0 | 0 |
| South & Central America | 591 | 2613 |
Some 537MW/861MWh of capacity came online in Europe, including a 40MW/80MWh system in Sweden from Centrica.
See previous monthly entries in our Global BESS Deployments Roundup, with data kindly provided by Benchmark Mineral Intelligence.
