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Globally, energy storage project development is increasingly driven by the utility-scale segment, with mandates and targeted auctions driving gigawatt-hour projects in markets like China, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Australia and Chile.
Utility-scale projects are set to account for 84 percent of annual gigawatt-hour additions in 2025. Through 2028, short-duration energy storage – specifically projects with less than six hours of capacity – will make up around 80 percent of total installations by gigawatt-hours.
Mainland China accounts for most of the global energy storage demand, driven in the near term by regional requirements for new utility-scale wind and solar projects to include energy storage capacity. However, the Chinese market is entering an era of change.
The geography of energy investment is shifting in ways that will have long-term implications. China is the largest global energy investor by a wide margin, and its share of global clean energy investment has risen from a quarter ten years ago to almost one-third today.
The World Investment Report focuses on trends in foreign direct investment (FDI) worldwide, at the regional and country levels and emerging measures to improve its contribution to
Battery energy storage projects face distinct technical challenges that complicate their development and financing. A key concern is the degradation of battery systems over time.
The digital economy is the fastest-growing sector of the global economy, but investment remains highly concentrated.
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Estimates indicate that global energy storage installations rose over 75% (measured by MWhs) year over year in 2024 and are expected to go beyond the terawatt-hour mark before 2030.
But the headline recovery after two years of weakness masks fragility in real investment activity and widening divides between countries and sectors.
The Energy Storage Market worth 0.54 terawatt in 2026 is growing at a CAGR of 23.05% to reach 1.52 terawatt by 2031. Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Ltd. (CATL),
As our report shows, global foreign direct investment contracted for the second consecutive year. International project finance, critical for large-scale infrastructure and development, registered
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China''s investment in key energy projects reached a milestone last year, surpassing a record 3.5 trillion yuan as China steps up its transition toward a greener power grid.
The global market for energy storage is set to reach unprecedented levels next year, with utility-scale projects leading the charge, according to BNEF. BNEF forecasts that
UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD), World investment report 2025 The data includes financial transactions through European economies with high levels of conduit flows. 1990 1995 2000
Global foreign direct investment fell by 11%, marking the second consecutive year of decline and confirming a deepening slowdown in productive capital flows, according to the World
Foreign investment in Africa surged by 75% to reach an all-time high of $97 billion in 2024, bolstered by liberalization and facilitation efforts across the continent.
Investment in solar, both utility-scale and rooftop, is expected to reach USD 450 billion in 2025, making it the largest single item in our inventory of the world''s investment spending.
After record growth in 2024, U.S. battery energy storage systems (BESS) could grow from more than 26 gigawatts (GW) of capacity—enough to power 20 million homes—to
The global energy storage market is poised to hit new heights yet again in 2025. Despite policy changes and uncertainty in the world''s two largest markets, the US and China,
In 2024, developing economies of Asia attracted $605 billion in foreign direct investment (FDI), according to the latest World Investment Report released by UN Trade and Development
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