{
  "slug": "global-behind-the-meter-storage-2025",
  "title": "Global Behind-the-Meter Storage: The 2025 Data",
  "url": "https://solaranalytica.com/global-behind-the-meter-storage-2025",
  "summary": "Global energy storage additions broke 100 GW for the first time, battery pack prices hit a record low, and Australia's Cheaper Home Batteries Program moved 400,000 systems in under a year. What the 2025 data says about where residential storage is heading.",
  "license": "Free to use with attribution to Solar Analytica (solaranalytica.com). Underlying figures are named to their public sources below.",
  "csv": "https://solaranalytica.com/reports/global-behind-the-meter-storage-2025/data.csv",
  "datePublished": "2026-04-09",
  "lastReviewed": "2026-04-09",
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "BloombergNEF: Global Energy Storage Growth Upheld by New Markets",
      "url": "https://about.bnef.com/insights/clean-energy/global-energy-storage-growth-upheld-by-new-markets/"
    },
    {
      "title": "BloombergNEF: Lithium-Ion Battery Pack Prices Fall to $108 Per Kilowatt-Hour, Despite Rising Metal Prices",
      "url": "https://about.bnef.com/insights/clean-transport/lithium-ion-battery-pack-prices-fall-to-108-per-kilowatt-hour-despite-rising-metal-prices-bloombergnef/"
    },
    {
      "title": "SunWiz: Battery Market Report Australia 2026",
      "url": "https://www.sunwiz.com.au/battery-market-report-australia-2026/"
    },
    {
      "title": "energy-storage.news: Australia hits 400,000 home battery installations with 11.2GWh capacity in under a year",
      "url": "https://www.energy-storage.news/australia-hits-400000-home-battery-installations-with-11-2gwh-capacity-in-under-a-year/"
    },
    {
      "title": "Australian Government: Cheaper Home Batteries Program (DCCEEW)",
      "url": "https://www.dcceew.gov.au/energy/programs/cheaper-home-batteries"
    }
  ],
  "figures": [
    {
      "id": "global-storage-additions",
      "title": "Annual global energy storage additions, measured and forecast",
      "unit": "GW",
      "caption": "Annual global storage additions, all segments. 2025 is the measured result (112 GW / 307 GWh) and the first year past 100 GW; 2026 and 2036 are BNEF forecasts. Energy terms in the table below.",
      "series": [
        {
          "label": "2025, measured",
          "value": 112
        },
        {
          "label": "2026, forecast",
          "value": 158
        },
        {
          "label": "2036, forecast",
          "value": 308
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "pack-price-by-segment-2025",
      "title": "Average lithium-ion pack price by segment, 2025",
      "unit": "USD/kWh",
      "caption": "Average lithium-ion pack price, 2025 (BNEF Battery Price Survey). Stationary storage became the cheapest segment of any kind at US$70/kWh, down 45% in a year; the all-segments average has fallen 93% from US$1,474/kWh in 2010.",
      "series": [
        {
          "label": "All segments",
          "value": 108
        },
        {
          "label": "China average",
          "value": 84
        },
        {
          "label": "Stationary storage",
          "value": 70
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}