Battery storage boom: Capacity increases to 8,600 MWh until 2026!

Battery storage boom: Capacity increases to 8,600 MWh until 2026!

The market for battery venoming is faced with enormous growth. According to a current market research, the storage capacity will increase to a total of 8,600 MWh in the next two years. This would mean that the currently installed capacity of 1,800 MWh will be increased to almost five times by the end of 2026. An important driver behind are the rising amounts of solar power that can be saved more and more cheaply.

The Federal Association of Solar Economics (BSW) bases its forecasts on an analysis by Enervis, which, among other things, also evaluated the projects in the market master data register of the Federal Network Agency. "The price -reducing feed -in of more and more solar power performance makes electricity storing electricity an interesting business model," says Carsten Körnig, general manager of the BSW. This development can also be seen in the figures of the past few years: the large -saving capacity was 600 MWh in 2020, in 2023 at 1,400 MWh, and 2,600 MWh is expected for the end of the current year.

forecasts and requirements

The numbers show that both small and large memory have increased considerably. At the end of July of this year, the installed capacity added up to an impressive 16,000 MWh, with almost 13,000 MWh eliminated on home storage. This means that 1.51 million home stores are already in use. This growth speaks for the increased interest and investments in technology.

The market research and the forecasts based on it show that the space for large battery storage is not only present, but is also urgently needed to efficiently design the integration of the increased photovoltaic performance into the electricity system. The future expansion in the area of large storage is therefore both an economic and a technological challenge that should be mastered in order to meet the direction of the market. More details on this topic can be found in a detailed report www.energie-und-management.de .