Sembcorp has pulled the plug on Indonesia solar-plus-storage project, shortly after completing Southeast Asia’s biggest battery storage project.

National science agency CSIRO has said Australia needs multiple energy storage technologies at massive scale to achieve its transition.

Canadian Solar doubled its energy storage shipments to 1.79GWh in 2022 although expects significant lower growth in 2023 due to transitioning its utility-scale product.

Adopting an “agile working method” without taking any shortcuts on safety or other standards was crucial to DNV testing and certifying a 200MW battery project in Singapore in “record time”.

At World Smart Energy Week in Japan last week CATL, Jinkosolar and Sungrow exhibited battery storage products.

Battery storage projects at least 1GWh of capacity have been proposed or progressed in Australia by companies Synergy, SkyLab and the Queensland government.

Gotion High-Tech has continued recent moves into new markets across Asia, signing a deal with Japan’s Edison Power.

The government of New Zealand considering viability of pumped hydro among its options to plug energy deficits of between 3TWh and 5TWh.

Australian Vanadium has secured a site and progressed the design and development of a flow battery electrolyte facility in Western Australia.