Wärtsilä has installed the first utility-scale battery storage project in Singapore and received an order from a customer in Southeast Asia for a further 90MW / 90MWh of battery storage.
Fluence has announced that it has been contracted to deliver a large tranche of projects in Southeast Asia, but has agreed with its customer not to reveal yet which country they will be located in.
Panellists at the opening day of Solar and Off-Grid Renewables Southeast Asia event in Bangkok warned that investors who come on board quickest are going to gain a huge advantage as solar-plus-storage starts to become viable at scale.
Zinc-air battery-based energy storage system maker Fluidic Energy has received US$20 million in investment for projects in south-east Asia from a private equity fund which includes the Asian Development Bank as a partner.
Vietnam’s government will “amend policies” to support production of clean energy technologies, a minister has said at the opening of a battery energy storage system (BESS) factory.
South Korean battery and electronics materials manufacturer Samsung SDI has secured a KRW1.5 trillion (US$1 billion) deal to supply energy storage system (ESS) batteries for a US energy company.
