China-linked critical minerals price swings delay 1 in 4 energy-storage projects: report

Price volatility in critical minerals, largely shaped by China’s market, is delaying or derailing nearly one in four energy-storage investments worldwide, according to a new report, highlighting the extent to which strategic materials have become a growing geopolitical flashpoint. Some 23 per cent of investors, lenders, developers and producers said otherwise viable energy-storage projects had been deferred or scrapped because…