{"id":18273,"date":"2026-04-01T09:31:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T09:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/ganfeng-lithium-sees-surge-in-battery-demand-amid-china-us-energy-rivalry\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T09:31:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T09:31:27","slug":"ganfeng-lithium-sees-surge-in-battery-demand-amid-china-us-energy-rivalry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/ganfeng-lithium-sees-surge-in-battery-demand-amid-china-us-energy-rivalry\/","title":{"rendered":"Ganfeng Lithium sees surge in battery demand amid China-US energy rivalry"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\" readability=\"12.961130742049\">China&rsquo;s Ganfeng Lithium, the world&rsquo;s largest producer of lithium metal, is envisioning an &ldquo;explosive growth&rdquo; in the global <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">energy storage system<\/span> (ESS) market in 2026, spurred by higher prices of the key battery material and buoyant demand for renewable energy infrastructure.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Executives including president Wang Xiaoshen told an investors&rsquo; conference on Tuesday that the global decarbonisation drive had created a strong and sustainable trajectory for Ganfeng, which swung from loss to profit last year as lithium prices climbed.<\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\" readability=\"12.58064516129\">&ldquo;The ESS sector has entered a period of explosive growth, and this trend is expected to continue into 2026,&rdquo; executives said in a filing to the Shenzhen Stock Exchange. &ldquo;At the same time, <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">AI [artificial intelligence] computing and data centres<\/span>, the new power consumption scenarios, are driving a constant increase in demand for ESS.&rdquo;<\/div>\n<div data-qa=\"InlineAdSlot-Container\" class=\"css-zl1inp e11v3ui14\">\n<div class=\"e11v3ui10 e11v3ui13 css-1umbx1w e1flwkbl0\" data-qa=\"AdSlot-Container\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\" readability=\"9.1780821917808\">The upbeat forecast by Ganfeng, which supplies lithium to the world&rsquo;s major carmakers from Tesla to BMW, came after analysts predicted that mainland China would maintain its dominance in the global <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">ESS battery market<\/span>.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Ganfeng&rsquo;s Hong Kong-listed shares slumped 4.7 per cent to HK$69.30 on Wednesday morning while its Shenzhen-listed shares dropped 1.4 per cent to 77.28 yuan.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-inline-container e1a5rv550 css-1llrc1m e1yqhwb40\" data-qa=\"Component-renderMap-StyledDiv\">\n<div class=\"image-inline caption e1fvabeq0 css-19sk4h4 ea9pn0s0\" data-qa=\"Component-Container\">\n<figure class=\"image-inline caption ea9pn0s1 css-1qeofuq e1gf69pb0\" data-qa=\"ArticleImage-ArticleImageContainer\">\n<div data-qa=\"ArticleImage-handleRenderImage-ImageContainer\" class=\"css-0 e1gf69pb3\"><\/div><figcaption data-qa=\"ArticleImage-DescriptionContainer\" class=\"css-1bj5zno e1gf69pb1\">Ganfeng Lithium swung from loss to profit last year as lithium prices climbed. Photo: Handout<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">In 2025, Ganfeng posted net profits of 1.61 billion yuan (US$233.8 million), compared with net losses of 2.1 billion yuan a year earlier.<\/p>\n<div data-qa=\"InlineAdSlot-Container\" class=\"css-zl1inp e11v3ui14\">\n<div class=\"e11v3ui10 e11v3ui13 css-1xd1hm8 e1flwkbl0\" data-qa=\"AdSlot-Container\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>Ganfeng Lithium sees surge in battery demand amid China-US energy rivalry<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China&rsquo;s Ganfeng Lithium, the world&rsquo;s largest producer of lithium metal, is envisioning an &ldquo;explosive growth&rdquo; in the global energy storage system (ESS) market in 2026, spurred by higher prices of the key battery material and buoyant demand for renewable energy infrastructure. Executives including president Wang Xiaoshen told an investors&rsquo; conference on Tuesday that the global&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/ganfeng-lithium-sees-surge-in-battery-demand-amid-china-us-energy-rivalry\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Ganfeng Lithium sees surge in battery demand amid China-US energy rivalry&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18274,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}