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The Battery Boom Is Becoming Impossible to Ignore

For the past several weeks, I have been working my way through the major findings in the Energy Institute’s 2026 Statistical Review of World Energy. This article concludes that series.

  • Battery storage capacity grew 65.8% to 301.7 GW in 2025
  • China leads with 144.1 GW, nearly half of global total
  • U.S. ranks second with 56.6 GW, 63% growth in 2025

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