China leads 29% October global BESS deployments increase

Nearly 70% of the 4.5GW/12.7GWh of grid-scale BESS that came online across the globe last month was in China.

The global figure is a 29% increase year-on-year, and the data comes from market intelligence firm Rho Motion’s Battery Energy Stationary Storage Monthly Database, which the previous month reported a 19% fall in deployments owing to a quiet month in China.

Cumulative deployments in the first ten months of the year have now reached 156GWh, up 39% year-on-year.

One of the projects which contributed to China’s new installations in October totalling 2,988MW/8,786MWh, was a vanadium redox flow battery (VRFB) project, the latest of several large-scale projects to have been commissioned.