Industrial Battery Market - Growth, Trends, COVID-19 Impact, and Forecasts (2022 - 2027)

Industrial Battery Market - Growth, Trends, COVID-19 Impact, and Forecasts (2022 - 2027)

The industrial battery market is expected to register a CAGR of over 8.36% during the forecast period, 2020-2025. Declining lithium-ion battery prices, increasing demand from data centers and the telecom sector, and rising renewable energy integration across the world are some of the key factors driving the market. However, factors, such as uncertainty in raw material prices and availability of raw materials, such as cobalt, lead, and lithium, are likely to curtail the market growth rate during the forecast period.

Key Highlights

• Among the different types of industrial battery technologies, lithium-ion battery (LIB) is expected to witness significant growth in the industrial battery market over the forecast period, majorly due to its favorable capacity-to-weight ratio. Other factors boosting the LIB adoption include its properties, like better performance, higher energy density, and decreasing price.
• The rising focus on technologically advanced batteries by end users and manufacturers is likely to create a massive opportunity for the battery companies to invest and redirect their resources to make a breakthrough battery technology.
• In 2018, Asia-Pacific dominated the industrial battery market across the world, owing to its rising demand for UPS, forklifts, and grid level energy storage system applications.

Key Market TrendsLithium-ion Battery (LIB) Technology to Witness a Significant Growth Rate

• Lithium-ion battery (LIB) is expected to witness significant growth in the industrial battery market over the forecast period, majorly due to its favorable capacity-to-weight ratio. Other factors boosting the LIB adoption include its properties, like better performance, higher energy density, and decreasing price.
• The price of LIB is usually higher compared to other batteries. However, leading players in the market have been investing in R&D activities to improve LIB's performance and price, in order to gain economies of scale. The emergence of new and exciting markets, such as energy storage systems (ESS), for both commercial and residential applications, is driving the demand for LIB.
• Lithium-ion batteries are witnessing massive demand in the battery energy storage market, owing to their declining prices. The United States Department of Energy (DOE) announced an interim price target of USD 125/kWh by 2020, and the prices for lithium-ion batteries are estimated to fall to as low as USD 73/kWh by 2030.
• Additionally, lithium-ion batteries are expected to hold the most significant share in the battery energy storage market in the coming years, as they require little maintenance, are lightweight, and have a reliable cycle life, high energy density regarding volume, and high charge/discharge efficiency.
• Globally, forklift orders doubled from 2009 till 2018. The United States witnessed an increase of nearly 150% during 2009-2018. The increase was partly due to the need for upgrading and replacing aging capital equipment. Adding to this, the increasing demand for the fast delivery of products has pushed for improvements in logistics and distribution, in both the developed and emerging regions, such as North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. This, in turn, is likely to boost the demand for industrial Li-ion batteries in the material handling industry in the coming years.

Asia-Pacific to Dominate the Market

• Asia-Pacific accounted for the major share of the industrial battery in 2018, and it is expected to continue its dominance over the forecast period. The market for industrial batteries in Asia-Pacific is majorly driven by China, India, Japan, and South Korea.
• In 2018, China’s total energy storage project capacity reached 1018.5 MW, 216% increases compared to the capacity in 2017. The newly added grid-side energy storage capacity in China reached 206.8 MW, accounting for around 36% of the new installed capacity in 2018 in the country. The grid-side energy storage sector was the biggest consumer of energy storage installation in 2018, by capacity.
• Factors, such as significant growth in renewable power generation capacity, energy storage targets released by electric utilities in 2018, coupled with the declining battery costs, have driven the large-scale energy storage capacity additions in the country.
• Hence, the growth witnessed in the energy storage deployment in 2018 is expected to continue in the coming years, which, in turn, is expected to be one of the biggest drivers for the industrial battery market in the country, during the forecast period.
• On the other hand, the Indian retail market is growing at a rapid rate with urbanization and increasing per capita purchasing parity in the country. Major foreign retail chains are entering the country, and domestic retail chains have also expanded their operations owing to the rising demand.
• In order to maintain efficient and fast logistics operations, the demand for material handling equipment, like forklifts to maintain operations in warehouses, is rising in the country. This, in turn, is expected to propel the demand for industrial batteries in the country during the forecast period.
• Similarly, countries, such as Japan and South Korea, have been facing an increasing demand for material handling equipment since the past few years.
• Therefore, factors, such as increasing energy storage deployments, increasing demand from material handling industry, and upcoming data centers are expected to boost the industrial battery market in the region during the forecast period.

Competitive Landscape

The industrial battery market is fragmented. The key players in this market include EnerSys, Exide Industries Limited, GS Yuasa Corporation, and East Penn Manufacturing Company Inc.

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Companies Mentioned

C&D Technologies Pvt. Ltd
East Penn Manufacturing Company Inc.
EnerSys
Exide Industries Ltd
GS Yuasa Corporation
Amara Raja Batteries Ltd
Panasonic Corporation
Saft Groupe SA

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