Rondo Energy and SCG Cleanergy have commenced operation of Southeast Asia’s first industrial thermal battery energy storage system (BESS) at SCG’s cement plant in Saraburi, Thailand.

HyperStrong has marked a significant strategic step in the Southeast Asian market with two key achievements in the Philippines during October, inaugurating a new office in Manila’s financial district and signing a major domestic 185MWh BESS project.

A new partnership aims to deploy an integrated solution combining solar PV with sodium-ion batteries at commercial and industrial (C&I) sites in Southeast Asia.

Envision Energy has inked a strategic partnership with SUN Terra to collaborate on energy storage in Southeast Asia, India and Australia.

Jinko ESS has secured a 10MWh energy storage project in the Southeast Asia region, involving deployment of an off-grid energy storage system to provide reliable renewable power for remote factories.

Donald Trump has announced his sweeping ‘Liberation Day’ global tariffs, with another new China tariff resulting in an effective doubling of the price of batteries and BESS imported from there to the US.

Emerging energy storage markets across Asia face a similar learning curve today as their maturing counterparts have done in the past.

Energy Vault has secured a US licensing deal for its gravity energy storage technology and awards covering its other technologies there and in Southeast Asia, it said in its Q2 results.

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”.