HD Renewable Energy and utility Tokyo Gas signed a deal for two large-scale projects in another busy week for Japan’s growing battery storage market.

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.  

Energy Vault has entered what it has described as “one of the world’s fastest-growing energy storage markets,” acquiring a portfolio of development projects in Japan.

Amid growing interest in Japan’s battery storage market, a consortium of major Japanese businesses is targeting 174MW of deployments.

Developer-investor Hexa Energy Services has inaugurated what is thought to be Japan’s first operational battery storage project with a capacity market contract.

Hithium has signed a cooperation agreement for a potential 3GWh of battery storage deployments in the Asia-Pacific region with infrastructure investor Brawn Capital.

Large-scale renewable energy power plant developers in the Philippines have been instructed to integrate energy storage into their proposed facilities.

Vietnam is confronting barriers to energy storage deployment, setting an example for the wider ASEAN region, writes Sunita Dubey.

Chinese battery manufacturer EVE Energy has secured a contract with the Malaysian government to deploy an AC/DC integrated 36MWh solar-plus-storage system at Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA).

By the end of December 2025, China’s cumulative installed capacity of new energy storage technologies including lithium-ion reached 144.7GW, representing an 85% year-on-year rise.