The battery boom to attract USD 620 billion in investment by 2040
The battery boom is coming to China, California and basically everywhere else — and it will be even bigger than previously thought.
By Bloomberg News, Brian Eckhouse
The global energy-storage market will surge to a cumulative 942 gigawatts by 2040, according to a new forecast from Bloomberg NEF published Tuesday, and that growth will necessitate USD 620 billion in investment. Sharply falling battery costs is a key driver of the boom. BNEF sees the capital cost of a utility-scale lithium-ion storage system falling another 52 percent by 2030.
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