Why is energy storage important?

Energy storage has a critical role in stabilising and integrating the renewables power generation, in our view. We expect more favourable policies and pricing mechanisms to support the development of energy storage. Technology continues to reduce cost; parity expected in 2025E We forecast a 69% cost reduction for BESS from now to 2025E.

What drives energy storage growth?

Energy storage growth is generally driven by economics, incentives, and versatility. The third driver—versatility—is reflected in energy storage’s growing variety of roles across the electric grid (figure 1).

What is the future of energy storage?

BNEF’s forecast suggests that the majority, or 55%, of energy storage build by 2030 will be to provide energy shifting (for instance, storing solar or wind to release later). Co-located renewable-plus-storage projects, solar-plus-storage in particular, are becoming commonplace globally.

How can energy storage help the electric grid?

Three distinct yet interlinked dimensions can illustrate energy storage’s expanding role in the current and future electric grid—renewable energy integration, grid optimization, and electrification and decentralization support.

How much investment is needed for stationary energy storage?

This boom in stationary energy storage will require more than $262 billion of investment, BNEF estimates. BloombergNEF’s 2021 Global Energy Storage Outlook estimates that 345 gigawatts/999 gigawatt-hours of new energy storage capacity will be added globally between 2021 and 2030, which is more than Japan’s entire power generation capacity in 2020.

Are energy storage projects growing?

Energy storage projects are growing in scale, increasing in dispatch duration, and are increasingly paired with renewables.” BNEF’s forecast suggests that the majority, or 55%, of energy storage build by 2030 will be to provide energy shifting (for instance, storing solar or wind to release later).