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October 2, 2024
With more than 3GW of new deployments in the second quarter of this year, “energy storage is becoming a mainstay of the power grid” in the US.
June 20, 2023
The US National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has updated its long-term battery energy storage system (BESS) costs through to 2050, with costs potentially halving over this decade.
June 15, 2023
Annual battery energy storage system (BESS) installations will grow by 10x between 2022 and 2030, according to research firm Rystad Energy.
December 6, 2022
Lithium-ion battery pack prices have gone up 7% in 2022, marking the first price rise since BloombergNEF began its surveys in 2010.
December 1, 2022
Energy storage costs in the US grew 13% from Q1 2021 to Q1 2022, said the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in a cost benchmarking analysis.
September 29, 2022
The US energy storage market’s rapid growth is going to lead to scrambles for available battery supply, leading many to consider alternative technologies to lithium-ion.
September 5, 2022
High cost and material availability are the main non-technical barriers to energy storage deployment at the scale needed, according to a new report from MIT.
February 9, 2022
Asia-Pacific will overtake North America as the biggest utility-scale energy storage (UES) market by annual installed gigawatts (GW) by 2024-2025, according to a new report by Guidehouse Insights, one to two years later than in the firm’s previous forecasts.
January 20, 2021
Renewable energy uptake and the falling costs of battery energy storage are “inexorably linked” as the global economy faces a crucial decade ahead in its urgent need to decarbonise, according to work by McKinsey & Company.
January 19, 2021
The Asia-Pacific region will continue to be the world’s leading centre of lithium-ion cell manufacturing for the next decade, but it won’t just be price reductions in batteries that will drive a 30% drop in front-of-meter battery storage in key markets China, Australia and South Korea.

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