Japanese financial services group Orix and regional utility company Kansai Electric building large-scale battery storage system.

Prime Infrastructure Capital, owned by Filipino businessman Enrique K Razon, is in line to provide 500MW of pumped hydro power to national utility Meralco.

Construction has begun on a large-scale hybrid renewable energy project combining wind, solar PV and energy storage in Australia.

Battery system has been installed as part of a project to increase energy efficiency and reduce emissions from Singapore’s seaports.

Aware Super has identified a “significant strategic opportunity” to invest in an energy storage project developer.

Newly announced funding support from ARENA is enabling the expansion of a planned large-scale battery project in New South Wales.

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Quinbrook developing A$2.5 billion ‘Supernode’ site in Queensland for storing energy and data that would include 2,000MWh of battery storage.

Construction has begun of a factory for long-duration flow batteries using iron and saltwater electrolyte in Queensland, Australia.

Nearly A$4 billion (US$2.72 billion) of battery projects in Australia are in the running to receive financial support from ARENA.