China’s activity appears to be slowing, related to market reforms which we’ve covered previously.
See the full figures below. A total of 125.8GWh came online in the first half of the year, 27% higher than the same period in 2025.
| Region | MW | MWh |
| Africa | 0 | 0 |
| Asia (excluding China) | 0 | 0 |
| China | 3,696 | 10,094 |
| Europe | 916 | 2,384 |
| Middle East | 2,500 | 12,500 |
| North America | 710 | 3,020 |
| Oceania | 565 | 1,960 |
| South & Central America | 700 | 3,500 |
| Total | 9,087 | 33,459 |
The largest project to come online in June was the 3.5GWh Elena BESS in Chile, part of Grenergy’s Oasis de Atacama solar-plus-storage complex. The country’s president attended its inauguration, shortly before a 1TWh night-time PPA was signed with an unnamed buyer.
Projects totalling around 1.6GWh were brought online in Utah and Australia, by rPlus and Akaysha respectively. There were 11 gigawatt-hour scale projects commissioned during the month, with three in China rounding out the list.
The Elena project accounted for the whole of the South & Central America’s figures for the month. In Europe, major projects came online in Hungary, the Netherlands and Bulgaria.
Most of North America’s figures is made up of rPlus Utah project plus Aypa Power’s 250MW/1,000MWh Pediment energy storage project in Mesa, Arizona.
All these projects used lithium-ion technology, mostly lithium iron phosphate (LFP). One major sodium-ion project came online: Power China’s Shanghai Jiading Industry Zone Standalone Energy Storage Project which combined LFP and an undisclosed sodium-ion battery chemistry, totalling 50MW/200MWh.
Benchmark Mineral Intelligence head of research Iola Hughes recently wrote a Guest Blog for Energy-Storage.news on the company’s rankings and analysis of global BESS cell and system suppliers, noting that the nameplate annual production capacity of BESS cells globally surpassed 1TWh for the first time by the end of 2025.
