Trina Storage has emerged as one of the industry’s most active utility-scale storage suppliers, with near 1GWh shipments in North America, a landmark 1.2GWh system delivered in Chile and 2.4GWh under construction across Asia-Pacific. The momentum underscores the company’s growing weight in the battery energy storage market and the commercial value of its order pipeline, supported by full-stack R&D and accelerated local delivery.
The run of high-profile wins suggests that Trina’s long-term strategy of embedding itself in regional markets is beginning to yield sustainable scale. Since early 2025, the company has completed a third wave of North American deliveries, taking cumulative shipments close to the 1GWh mark. Management has framed the milestone as evidence that localization—engineering, certification and on-the-ground service—has translated into repeat business, deeper customer trust and a bankable track record.
The company is also pushing into Latin America. Trina has shipped its first single 1.2GWh system to Chile, a debut for GWh-scale overseas deliveries. The local plan mirrors its North American playbook: a zero-time-difference service team, a regionalized supply chain to shorten lead times and an end-to-end after-sales regime covering commissioning, operations and maintenance.
Momentum is equally visible across Asia-Pacific (ex-China). By July 2025, Trina had more than 2.4GWh of utility-scale projects under construction in Australia, Japan, South-East Asia and South Asia. BloombergNEF expects 16GWh of new regional additions in 2025; Trina’s book includes a 1.7GWh plant in South Asia—among the region’s largest—and Australia’s 500MWh Limestone Coast North Energy Park.
Product control sits at the centre of the pitch. Trina Storage adheres to a full-stack R&D model that spans battery cells through to AC-side system integration, a closed loop that offers tighter performance, safety and delivery control. Equipped with in-house battery cells, the Element family offers a cell temperature delta within 3°C, auxiliary consumption as low as 1.8%, and up to a 30% reduction in energy losses versus conventional approach measures aimed at boosting system efficiency and investor returns. The Elementa 2 system emphasizes higher integration, faster response and broad environmental adaptability, designed to meet safety, grid-connection and fire-protection requirements in different countries and application scenarios and sold as a one-stop solution. For example, the Elementa 2 solution, to be deployed in the Atacama Desert, is designed to withstand high temperatures and dust, cut failure rates and operating costs, and respond quickly to grid fluctuations.
The product roadmap is widening as well. Elementa 3 is designed with 587Ah dedicated storage cells and 6MWh configurations. Trina has demonstrated black-start and grid-forming behavior on a 10MW microgrid test platform and launched “solar-storage-charging” and “solar-storage-cloud” digital platforms to sharpen energy management and market responsiveness. The fleet targets a 20-year design life, backed by AI-based fault diagnosis, 24/7 monitoring and a global O&M network covering 170+ countries.
Third-party validation has broadened. Compliance spans IEC, UL and NFPA rules as well as national standards in Australia and Japan. Bankability has followed: Trina has been rated a BloombergNEF Tier-1 storage manufacturer for seven consecutive quarters, ranks near the top in BNEF’s global system-integrator bankability survey, and is also included in S&P Global Tier 1 battery energy storage supplier list.
Manufacturing is being scaled to support the pace. The Chuzhou integrated factory recently completed an upgrade: automation up 23% across critical steps from battery cell manufacturing to container integration and acceptance testing; overall production efficiency up 50%; testing efficiency up more than 60%. The site now links ERP and MES for real-time data, visual oversight and intelligent dispatch, and runs a plant-wide traceability system across processes, equipment, energy, planning and logistics. Trina cites a current product-portfolio capacity of 16GWh.
Capital support from the parent company is stepping up. Trina Solar plans to inject CNY 800m into Trina Storage, lifting its stake to 64.31%. Including prior rounds, cumulative capital increases reach CNY 2.4bn. A recent appraisal set Trina Storage’s equity value at CNY 4.025bn, a 163.87% uplift versus the base.
At home, Trina completed the CNNC Hainan 1GW PV + 300MWh project and secured 600MWh in SPIC’s 2025 5GWh framework tender.
Behind the upbeat cadence is a market shifting from price to value. By first half of 2025, cumulative shipments of battery containers and systems exceeded 12GWh, while cumulative deliveries in Europe exceeded 2.5GWh; for 2025 the company guides 8–10GWh of system shipments, targeting a third straight year of doubling. The company also announced that it has secured more than 10GWh of signed overseas orders, with delivery mainly scheduled for 2025-2026. With GWh-level orders landing across the globe, including North America, Latin America, APAC, Europe, the Middle East, Trina Storage is confident that full-stack control, localized execution and bankable performance will keep converting industry recognition into durable scale.
