Battery storage faces 40-50% cost premium amid trade fragmentation, McKinsey warns
McKinsey's Global Energy Perspective 2026 finds battery energy storage systems hit hardest by fragmented trade, with capex premiums of 40 to 50 percent.

Battery energy storage systems (BESS) face the largest clean-technology cost premium under a fragmented energy order, according to McKinsey & Company's 11th annual Global Energy Perspective 2026 asses...