ESR, a Singapore-headquartered real asset owner and manager focused on logistics real estate and data centres, has signed an agreement to acquire 100% of Aquila Clean Energy APAC.

India’s storage market remains focused on short-duration firming, but conversations about long-duration storage are already underway.

Japanese utility Tokyo Gas has entered into a long-term offtake agreement for a 49.7MW/202.1MWh battery storage project in Fukushima Prefecture.

The rising costs of coal and gas mean that the adoption of renewable energy is a “survival issue” for countries in Southeast Asia, and energy storage is critical to the transition.

ADB has approved a Royal Government of Cambodia application for financial support for a 250MW/500MWh battery storage project.

Energy Storage Summit Asia 2026 convenes in Bangkok as Vietnam’s tariff reform, Cambodia’s grid milestone, and AI demand reshape the region.

In this interview with Energy-Storage.news, Colin Koon Peng Ho of Banpu NEXT explains why policy certainty now outweighs cost in APAC battery storage investment decisions, and discusses regulatory barriers, supply chain localisation and the most attractive BESS opportunities.

APAC’s AI data centres look set to lock in a decade of coal and gas dependency, but long-duration energy storage can break that cycle, says Pavina Adunratanasee of ArkTerra Partners.

Carrie Xiao reports back from this year’s edition of SNEC in Shanghai, China, the world’s biggest solar and energy storage expo.

This special Japanese market roundup covers large-scale BESS project announcements from PowerX, Eku Energy and SMFL.