A renewable energy subsidiary of the Philippine conglomerate Lopez Group has contracted for the deployment of battery energy storage system (BESS) resources at three geothermal sites.

Energy Vault and Kore Power have announced a master supply agreement (MSA) which will see Kore supply 1.3GWh of US-made batteries in 2025, potentially rising to 7GWh by 2027.

Energy storage’s role in enabling decarbonisation and economic growth was at the heart of discussions at Energy Storage Summit Asia 2023.

Many ASEAN countries are advancing their adoption of renewable energy with the support of regulators, but the same can’t yet be said for energy storage technologies.

Vietnam’s VinES Energy Solutions has partnered with SolarBK to promote the integration of battery storage with rooftop solar PV.

The Philippines has turned its focus onto transitioning its energy sector to larger shares of renewable energy. Carlos Nieto of ABB writes about how the company delivered a 60MW battery storage project in alignment with that aim.

Rondo Energy, which counts Bill Gates’ Breakthrough Energy Ventures among its investors, intends to scale up annual production capacity of its thermal storage tech to 90GWh.

Pacific island country of Palau has welcomed the commissioning of its first large-scale solar-plus-storage project, representing the largest power plant of its kind in the Western Pacific region.

Japan’s Marubeni Corporation working with Vietnamese battery and energy-as-a-service provider VinES to develop energy storage facilities.