The worldwide energy storage industry is projected to expand from over 27 GW in 2021 to more than 358 GW by 2030, propelled by breakthroughs in technology and declining costs . The ongoing reduction of costs will be driven by the increase in production volumes and the optimization of supply chains.
The challenges of large-scale energy storage application in power systems are presented from the aspect of technical and economic considerations. Meanwhile the development prospect of global energy storage market is forecasted, and application prospect of energy storage is analyzed.
Due to rapid development of energy storage technology, the research and demonstration of energy storage are expanding from small-scale towards large-scale. United States, Japan, the European Union have proposed a series of policies for applications of energy storage technology to promote and support industrial development [12 – 16].
The development and expansion of energy storage technology not only depend on the improvement in storage characteristics, operational control and management strategy, but also requires the cost reduction and the supports from long-term, positive stable market and policy to guide and support the healthy development of energy storage industry.
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.
Foreword and acknowledgmentsThe Future of Energy Storage study is the ninth in the MIT Energy Initiative’s Future of series, which aims to shed light on a range of complex and vital issues involving