Outlook for Energy Storage Installations in 2024 Looking ahead to 2024, TrendForce anticipates a robust growth in China's new energy storage installations, projecting a substantial increase to 29.2 gigawatts and 66.3 gigawatt-hours. This marks a remarkable surge of approximately 46% and 50% year-on-year, indicative of a period of high growth.
The US utility-scale storage sector saw tremendous growth over 2022 and 2023. The volume of energy storage installations in the United States in 2022 totaled 11,976 megawatt hours (MWh)—a figure surpassed in the first three quarters of 2023 when installations hit 13,518 MWh by cumulative volume.
Furthermore, the sustained growth in the demand for utility-scale Energy Storage Systems (ESS), driven by challenges in the consumption of wind and solar energy, is noteworthy. TrendForce predicts that China's new utility-scale installations could reach 24.8 gigawatts and 55 gigawatt-hours in 2024.
Some 880MW/1,809MWh of energy storage projects were granted contracts in the PERTE tender in December 2023. The bulk will come online in 2025, reflected in LCP’s data, which shows 1.7GW/4.1GWh coming online that year.
Two 25MW/100MWh projects were deployed in the last few years (by Nippon Koei Energy Europe and Nala Renewables respectively) and January saw Dutch devel-oper Giga Storage claim it would start construction on a 600MW/2,400MWh project there, one of the biggest in Europe, in 2024.
As of December 2023, the bidding unit prices for ESS and EPC stand at 0.77 yuan per watt-hour and 1.45 yuan per watt-hour, respectively. In certain regions, standalone Energy Storage System (ESS) power plants are already yielding returns.