Visitors examine exhibits during the 12th International Energy Storage & Battery Conference & Exhibition in Shanghai, on Thursday. China's newly installed capacity of new-type energy storage reached 27.1 GWh, up 76 percent year-on-year, in the first quarter of 2026, and a total of 2,919 projects were filed, with a combined scale of around 677 GWh, industry data showed. Photo: VCG