Against the backdrop of the “dual-carbon” goals and the accelerated construction of a new energy system, pumped storage energy, accompanied by the demand for a large amount of new energy, has experienced vigorous development in China. Currently, China has built pumped storage installed capacity of 50 million kilowatts, ranking first in the world.
Over more than fifty years of effort, China has progressed in conventional pumped storage technology, from introduction and assimilation to innovation.
According to CNESA data, the capacity of independent energy storage stations planned or under construction in China in the first half of 2022 was 45.3GW, accounting for over 80% of all new energy storage projects planned or under construction.
The rapid growth of renewable energy generation has created a large market demand for energy storage facilities. By the end of the first quarter of 2024, the cumulative installed capacity of new energy-storage projects in China had reached 35.3 million kW.
With China continuously scaling up the construction of integrated clean energy bases like “hydro-wind-storage” and new energy bases such as “Shagohuang”, pumped storage stations, especially variable-speed ones, will be more widely applied as energy storage support in regional grids (China Power, 2023).
By the end of 2023, China had completed and put into operation a cumulative installed capacity of new type energy storage projects reaching 31.4GW / 66.9GWh, with an average storage duration of 2.1 hours. The newly added installed capacity in 2023 was approximately 22.6GW / 48.7GWh, which is three times that for 2022 (7.3GW / 15.9GWh).
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