The monthly figure for May was actually a year-on-year fall of 32%, but that reflects a strong month in May 2025. And, the deployments in the first five months of 2026 have reached 86.3GWh, up 24% year-on-year.
The figures are in the table below. Asia excluding China saw 1,261MW/3571MWh come online.
A big chunk of that was the Khavda BESS Phase 2, a 667MW/1,994MWh project in India put into operation by the conglomerate Adani Group. But there were also sizeable projects completed by Meralco PowerGen Corp in the Philippines and TNB in Malaysia.
Large-scale BESS deployments in May 2026
RegionMWMWhAfrica00Asia (ex-China)1,2613,571China2,0315,372Europe7732,031Middle East3570North America3991,316Oceania150736South & Central America3001,497Total494914593Source: Benchmark Mineral Intelligence.
