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The country has vowed to realize the full market-oriented development of new energy storage by 2030, as part of efforts to boost renewable power consumption while ensuring stable operation of the electric grid system, a statement released by the National Development and Reform Commission and the National Energy Administration said.

The country's new energy storage sector, which is currently in its early stages, is expected to evolve from a nascent market player to a global leader in the coming years, they said.

New energy storage refers to electricity storage processes that use electrochemical, compressed air, flywheel and supercapacitor systems but not pumped hydro, which uses water stored behind dams to generate electricity when needed.

EnergyTrend is forecasting that large-scale energy storage installations in the US could reach 11.6GW/38.2GWh in 2023. Finally, the research firm said it expected the growth rate of European energy storage deployment in 2024 to be slower than during this year, but did not put figures on that expectation in analysis seen by Energy-Storage.news.

Mainland China accounts for most of the global energy storage demand, driven in the near term by regional requirements for new utility-scale wind and solar projects to include energy storage capacity. However, the Chinese market is entering an era of change.

“With energy storage, there's a new and interesting asset class emerging, and the business model is fundamentally different to that of wind and solar,” says Ingmar Grebien, who leads GS Pearl Street and is a managing director in Goldman Sachs Global Banking & Markets.