The Philippines Department of Energy (DOE) officially opened its hugely anticipated fourth Green Energy Auction (GEA-4) round to registrants earlier this week.

Huawei Digital Power has successfully commissioned what it claims is Cambodia’s first grid-forming battery energy storage system (BESS) certified by TÜV SÜD.

Renewable energy developer Gurin Energy has appointed Saft as the technology provider to a gigawatt-hour-scale battery energy storage system (BESS) in Japan.

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

Rept Battero and Hyosung Heavy Industries have agreed to jointly promote energy storage system (ESS) technologies in global markets.

Sumitomo Electric has inaugurated a vanadium redox flow battery (VRFB) system at a community solar microgrid in southern Japan.

Japanese manufacturer NGK Insulators’ proprietary battery tech features in a large-scale project that has just come online in its home country, as a pilot begins in the US.

A ‘smart energy’ subsidiary of Japan’s biggest telecommunications company, NTT, has launched an energy storage plant services division.

Vanadium redox flow battery company VFlowTech has raised investment towards manufacturing, expansion and enhancement of digital capabilities.

Regional electric utility companies in Japan are playing key roles in the delivery of battery energy storage system (BESS) resources.