The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) of China has released a strategy to accelerate the development of a new power system of the 2024-2027 period, leveraging the role of battery energy storage systems (BESS) and supporting their domestic production and rollout. By 2027, about CNY250bn (US$35bn) should be invested in new storage capacities to reach 180 GW of BESS capacity. This would nearly double the current storage capacity (95 GW as of June 2025), which is mostly made up of lithium-ion battery storage.
The NDRC aims to promote the use of BESS on the power generation side, especially in new energy bases such as deserts or wastelands, and on the power grid sides (especially in remote areas). It will also focus on industrial parks, computing power facilities, commercial complexes, integrated charging stations for solar PV storage, and other application scenarios.
China had initially set an energy storage target of 30 GW for 2025, which was reached in 2023.
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